The Sindh government has recently upgraded several primary schools to elementary level. On social media and in official statements, this step is being presented as a sign of progress as if education in Sindh is finally improving. But one must ask, when we have failed to provide quality education even at the primary level, what real purpose will such upgrades serve? The same schools where children sit on the floor, where teachers are few and often absent, where textbooks are decades old can simply changing the name of these schools bring an educational revolution?
Even today, in most rural areas of Sindh, schools lack basic facilities, proper classrooms and modern education. There are no science or computer labs. Students study without books and teachers teach without training. In such places, education has become another word for attendance.
The tragedy is that the teaching style remains what it was half a century ago. The curriculum offers no space for creativity, analysis, or practical learning. While the world is proceeding towards science, technology and digital learning, our schools are still stuck to an outdated method that neither opens the mind nor lets the potentials grow.
If the government is really serious about education, it must bring in genuine reforms at the grassroots: rebuilding school infrastructures, appointing teachers on merit, training them, updating curricula and incorporating technology. Nations are not built by announcements and ‘upgradations’; they are built by actual transformation in the way people are educated.
Until education becomes a true priority, we will keep handing over the same rusted system to future generations a system that breeds ignorance in the name of knowledge.
Sagar Ali Solangi
Larkana
