At home, parents do not pay attention to studies, students are busy with mobile phones, the trick of the school
In the classroom of the school there are boxes, sleeping beds and copies of books. There are also cloth bags, water glasses and rice plates. The desk-bench has been removed from the classroom. The student is busy reading and writing while sitting on the bed placed in that place.
48 students of Surya Mavi located in Gokhunga Sime Deurali, Malarani Rural Municipality-9 have been preparing for SEE since December 10. They brought food from home and came to stay in the school . They sleep in groups, get up at 4 am . After being 'fresh', they grab the copybook . They sit in bed and read until 6:00.
They also have a schedule of what to read and when. Like, from 6 to 9 in the morning, they study English, Maths and Science subjects with the teacher . From 10 am to 4 pm there is study according to the routine of the class . From 4:30 to 7:30 in the afternoon, they study mathematics again. After preparing for other subjects till 10 o'clock, one day's schedule is completed . Then they sleep .
Morning tea, dinner at 9:30, lunch at 1:00 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. are scheduled. Teachers-students eat together and everyone cleans their own plates .
7 subject teachers including the principal of the school Duk Prasad Paudel stay in the school at night . The president of the school management committee, Padam Chhetri, is engaged in all the management work from food, vegetables, water, firewood arrangement, supervision of students. SEE is operating from 7th Chait.
Prof. Paudel said that the purpose of teaching the students in school is to make 100% students pass the SEE. "Last year, the result of SEE was not good," he said, "We expected that the result would worsen when the parents could not teach at home, and the students were busy with their homework and mobile phones." After that, we started to increase the students' residential in the school.
In November, a meeting with the school management committee, ward president, and teachers decided to teach residentially. After failing in SEE, there was a problem of students not taking the exam again and going for foreign employment . "Residential studies have been conducted for the future of the students with the aim of becoming employees, teachers, doctors, lawyers, and becoming businessmen and industrialists in Nepal," Prof. Paudel said.
Parents say that even weak students have the habit of reading . Prof. Paudail said that the classes were conducted to increase the educational quality from the lower classes. "It is said that education in community schools is not good," Poudel said, "We are making it a matter of prestige, we are improving the results."
A private boarding school near the school closed down two years ago due to lack of students after conducting English medium education in the lower grades. All the students there came to enroll in this school. The Ward President Mahendrababu Khanal also visits the school from time to time.
"From November to SEE, we have estimated that more than 10 lakh rupees will be spent on education, food and snacks," said Padam Chhetri, chairman of the management committee, "We are looking for donors to collect all the dishes including dal, rice, vegetables, eggs, onions, garlic, tomatoes, spices and snacks." He said that they also bring vegetables from parents' and local's houses. "We feed meat once a week," he said. He takes his own vehicle to the village and headquarter to collect goods.
Now he said that he is trying to get good results by teaching in school . "After collecting food items by looking for financial support and donors, the school has provided free food and snacks to the students, but for teaching, the students have to pay a lump sum of 2100 rupees to the teacher," he said.
Famous Paudel is the first student to stay in school for SEE preparation. "Even if I had studied at home, I would have passed," he said, "When I study in a residential school, I am confident that I can pass in the special/first category in the results. Possible questions that may appear in the exam, the text of the book has been repeated and we have learned more and learned more when discussing with friends while reading together.'
Another student, Sangam Khanal, said that this is an opportunity to learn about unknown subjects. "When you were studying at home, you had to do the housework," he said. It has been very beneficial. Arjun Paudel has experienced residential education as a great benefit for him to pass the SEE result with good marks.
