Education: ‘Free teachers of non-teaching duties’

The provincial government should not make public school teachers perform non-teaching duties. This will affect their performance at schools, Punjab Teachers’ Union central president Syed Sajjad Akbar Kazmi said on Sunday. He said school teachers should not be assigned duties with polio vaccination teams. This, he said, was a violation of a Supreme Court of Pakistan judgement and would jeopardise the Education Department’s ongoing initiative for promotion of education in the province. He said the announcement of results for 5th and 8th grade exams had to be delayed last year because teachers required for grading papers were performing duties with polio teams at that time. Kazmi also condemned the practice of transferring the administration of public schools to non-government organisations. He also said that teachers should be taken into confidence on reforms planned for the Education sector in the province.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2015.