‘1,000 kids drop out of schools in Mianwali’

Number of students at a school in Kund is 13 only

MIANWALI:

Around 1,000 children have reportedly dropped out of the government schools in Mianwali district.

The district already ranks at 34 as far as enrolment in government schools is concerned.

Sources said that the government had sought an explanation from the district administration over the matter.

They alleged that only paperwork was being done, and officers were not willing to go out of their offices and visit the schools to get to the bottom of the issue.

With the current state of affairs, no wonder the district had fared poorly when one compares the results of the board examinations.

The number of students at an elementary school in the remote area of Kund is 13 only, but the education department had deputed six teachers there. That means that there is one teacher for every two students.

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On the contrary, the Government Elementary School in Wanjari has 248 students, but there is not a single teacher there.

If the situation continues as it is, the government educational institutions in the district would become history.

Only 45.8% of the students at the Central Model School passed the board exam, 29% of Government High School Mianwali, 49 percent of the Government Jamia High School Mianwali and 34 percent of the students of the MC High School got through the board exams.

Overall, 90 percent of schools of the district have had less than 30% of their students making the grade.

A social worker, Allah Nawaz Khan, had appealed to the secretary of schools to take vigorous measures to improve the quality of education in Mianwali district.

Allah Nawaz Khan said that private schools were out of reach of the majority of people of the district.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education had assigned many teachers from the district temporary duties near their hometowns at the expense of Mianwali district.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 10^th, 2023.