The Private Schools Associations (PSA) has urged Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah to implement a new schedule for the summer vacations in the province. This was said at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday.
Syed Ali Haider of the United Private Schools Management Front supported the new schedule and said that the previous one (June 1 to July 31) did not suit the province. “Due to national and religious holidays, monsoon rains and strikes, students get less time to complete their courses. Students and teachers also don’t perform at their best in Ramazan, which falls in August this year,” he said.
The new schedule was adopted after discussions with EDOs from 23 districts; however, the Shah stuck to the old vacation schedule of June and July.
He added that if the chief minister did not take his decision back, they would declare their subsequent plans on Saturday.
Haider said that the chief minister abolished the decision of the steering committee because of the Cambridge system. The Cambridge education year starts from August 1 while their summer vacations start from June 1 and end on July 31. He said that only one per cent of the schools in Sindh were working under the Cambridge system. “The chief minister prefers the one per cent over the rest of the 99 per cent.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2011.
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