In some schools, admissions have been taken after instructions and warnings from the municipality
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Although the classes should be conducted after the admission of students by the second week of Baisakh, as the teacher's protest continues for 28 days, the education of the children of public schools has become uncertain. The student enrollment campaign announced by the federal government this year with the slogan of 'Ensuring all children's school participation, quality education' has been affected by the teachers' movement.
There are 7 million students studying in public and private schools. Private schools have started conducting classes with uninterrupted admissions, while there is still confusion in public schools where 5.5 million children are enrolled.
In some schools, teachers, management committees, and local levels have conducted enrollment campaigns and distributed free textbooks, but education is uncertain when teachers are concentrated in Kathmandu for the movement. Some local levels, including Lalitpur and Pokhara Metropolitan City, have given instructions to conduct classes.
Teachers Federation, the umbrella organization of teachers who have announced that they will go on an educational strike until the School Education Act is promulgated, has been appealing to participate in the movement, rejecting the directives of the local level.
President of Teachers' Federation Lakshmi Kishor Subedi accuses the local level of threatening the protesting teachers to come to school without meeting their demands. "Teachers will return to school only after the Education Act is promulgated, we will make up for the educational damage caused by the agitation by conducting classes even on holidays," he says.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Shivkumar Sapkota, said that efforts are being made to resolve the problem through talks and return the teachers to school. He said that the teacher should return to the classroom by being responsible for the right of children to read. According to the data of the Ministry of Education, 76 percent of children enroll in class 1 through early childhood development. Only 94 percent of students are enrolled at the basic level (up to class 8) and at the secondary level (from class 9 to 12) the enrollment rate is 56 percent.
Rohini rural municipality of Ruppandehi has warned the community school teachers that action will be taken if they do not publish the results, enroll students, distribute textbooks from May 14, the result publication and admission campaign has started internally. In a statement signed by the municipality chairman, it is mentioned that since the long-term agitation is having a direct adverse effect on the educational future of the children studying in the school, from May 14th, action will be taken against the teachers and employees who disobey the instructions without publishing the results, admission and distribution of books.
In addition to the municipality's warning, as there is a risk of students going to private schools, public schools have started publication of results and internal admission campaigns. A team with principals of some schools of the municipality have joined the door-to-door campaign.
Prof. Birendra Paswan of Bhavishi Ujjwal Basic School located in Rohini-4 says that his colleague teacher participated in the movement and after failing to follow the direction of the municipality, the results were published and admissions were started through door-to-door admissions. "If we didn't try to stop it, even the few students were afraid to go elsewhere," he said, "Meanwhile, we started the work after the instructions of the municipality came."
Similarly, admission has also started in Pashupati Mavi in Ward 6. Prof. Shivakumar Bhar said that after the parents put a lot of pressure on them, they started door-to-door. In 15 public schools within the municipality, the results are currently being published and students are being admitted door-to-door internally.
Dullu Municipality of Dailekh has started enrolling students from home after the student recruitment campaign was affected due to the teachers' movement. The municipality has started enrolling students through its website. "Most of the teachers and staff of most of the public schools are on strike, due to which the period of the student enrollment campaign has ended," says city chief Bharat Prasad Rizal.
After the students started going to private schools, Dilpeshwar Mavi in Dipayal Silgarhi Municipality of Doti has started enrolling students and distributing textbooks in partnership with the management committee and the teacher-parent association. Roshan Kathayat, chairman of the school's management committee, says that they have started distribution of new textbooks and enrollment based on the opinion of parents as the teachers are protesting in Kathmandu.
The enrollment of students in the community school of Tikapur Municipality of Kailali has started. There are 450 teachers working in schools within the municipality. Ramlal Dagaura Tharu, head of the city of Teekpur, says that all the teachers who went to Kathmandu to participate in the movement have returned and the recruitment campaign has started.
In Gauriganga municipality of Kailali, student enrollment has not started yet. Municipal chief Devi Dutt Kandel says that 3-400 teachers are coming to the municipality every day and they are taking turns to participate in the protest. In Ghodaghodi municipality, even if the school staff opens the door, students do not come because the teacher is in Kathmandu, says Khadak Bahadur Rawat, head of the municipality.
A week and a half ago, the local level of Parsa, which committed to conduct the student recruitment campaign, has not yet started the work. Although some municipalities have partially started enrolling students, most of them have not been able to operate. Lal Bahadur Shrestha, Chairman of Thori Rural Municipality, said that the recruitment drive has been started since Sunday. "After conducting a campaign by mobilizing the manpower of the municipality, some students have even been enrolled," he says.
President of Jagarnathpur Rural Municipality Shrikant Yadav said that the campaign could not be conducted in his municipality. "I tried to run the campaign," he says, "but since there were no teachers in the school, the campaign could not be run."
President Prakash of Syangja's Arjun Chowpari Rural Municipality says that he has been instructed to prepare for the resumption of classes as soon as the Tiwari movement is over. "Some teachers have gone to the movement, some are in the village, they have enrolled and distributed the books, once the movement is over, classes can be resumed," he says.
On Tuesday, while meeting with the chief district officer of Syangja, the student asked the date of going to school. "When will we be able to go to school?" the students asked Prajia Ishwariprasad Aryal. The students participating in the 'Prajiya Sang Kharkar Program' organized by the Social Development Office, Syangja, demanded to start studying in schools.
Some school teachers in Jhapa Mechinagar are stopping students from going to private schools through toll camps, while some have started distributing books. "We are asking the parents not to send the students to school, we have distributed books so that they stay at home and study until the school opens," said a teacher.
Biratnagar Municipal Corporation published a notice on May 5 calling to start the student recruitment drive, but it did not work. Metropolitan Chief Nagesh Koirala said that when the recruitment campaign was affected across the country, it could not be started even in Biratnagar. Naseema Bano, vice president of Morang's Dhanpalthan Rural Municipality, claims that student enrollment has not been affected by the protest. "Some teachers are in protest, some are here," she said, "The teachers here are intensifying the recruitment campaign." The Bhadrapur Municipality of Jhapa has requested the agitating teachers to return to school and start the recruitment campaign immediately, saying that the enrollment, examination and academic session are being affected by the teachers' protest, causing confusion among students, teachers and parents.
Rautahat's Ishanath Municipality Chief Administrative Officer Nandkishore Gupta said that the opening of the school is being discussed with the people's representative and the education coordinator. Chandrapur Municipality Chief Sanjay Kafle said that the decision will be taken at the meeting of the Education Committee as the academic calendar has been affected. Gaur Municipality Chief Shambhu Sah says that the school is not open due to the long protest of the teachers and the parents along with the students are disappointed.
The management committee officials of 15 schools in Mahalakshmi municipality of Dhankuta have requested the teachers to run the school regularly, with only one person participating in the protest through a joint statement on Monday. It is mentioned in the statement that there is solidarity of the parents towards the protest, as there is no immediate solution, teaching should be conducted and only one teacher from each school should go to the protest. Maniraj Lungeli, Chairman of the Janata Mavi Management Committee of Mahalakshmi-7, said that they are worried because the education has been stopped for a long time.
– Sudeep Kaini (Kathmandu), Sanju Poudel (Lumbini), Krishna Prasad Gautam (Surkhet), Mohan Paneru (Doti), Arjun Shah (Dhangadhi), Shankar Acharya (Parsa), Parvat Portel (Viratnagar), Shiv Puri (Rautahat), Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (Dhankuta), Pratishka Kafle (Sangja)
