Nearly 150 School management committees have submitted proposals to mandal education officers appealing to give them permission to run English medium in their school following the demand in the district.
The education department will give permission to run English medium in government schools only when all the teachers must express their willingness to teach English medium. Also, villagers must pass a unanimous resolution seeking introducing English medium and School Management Committee (SMC) and that too without seeking any financial assistance from the government.
In some places, gram panchayats are coming forward to extend financial assistance to run the English medium as people feel that sending their children to private schools has become one of the major issues after the crisis in Agriculture.
Parents are coming out openly demanding the officials to introduce e English medium in the schools to avoid payment of the huge fee for their children in private schools. The parents strongly feel that the English medium in government schools will certainly reduce the financial burden on them.
Villagers are unanimously passing resolutions in grama sabha and also in school management committees demanding the state government to introduce English medium in their respective schools.
Villagers taking out rallies and submitting memorandums to the officials concerned appealing them to introduce English medium in the government schools in their villages.
Teachers who are facing the embarrassing situation with the proposed rationalization of schools and merger of government schools are finally convinced that English medium in government schools is the only tool which can strengthen the government schools and subsequently protect their jobs in the long run.
Most of the parents do want to mess-up with the ongoing arguments in favor of mother tongue and also English and they are simply demanding for the English medium for their children in governments schools.
Some of the parents promising the teachers and officials concerned to admit their children studying in private schools in government schools if English introduced in government schools in their areas.
A.Venkat, the district general secretary of TSUTF, said there is a good response from the parents and were demanding for English medium and observed that there was a perceptional change among the teachers this time as they were started feeling insecure as far as their jobs are concerned.
He observed that there would be no teacher posts without schools and there would be posts only when there are schools but there would no schools without students adding that even parents asking them why teachers don’t join their children in government schools during Badibata program.
But, the fact remains that most of the teachers joined their children in English medium schools in towns and cities and there is hope that some of the government teachers may join their children in government schools in towns if there would be English medium.
It is the fact that most of the teachers stay in town and cities and they do up and down to their schools in rural areas.
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