Derelict room of another school is their classroom
Students of a school for working children in the district town attend classes in a small abandoned room of another school as their school has no building of its own.
Shishu Kalyan School started its journey on January 31 in 1990 and it is run by the Shishu Kalyan Trust under the primary and mass education ministry, said Headmistress Kohinoor Begum.
Kohinoor said the room where the class for the working children is held was declared abandoned four to five years ago as it was damaged.
The activities of the school started in a room of Mahila Samity Primary School at women's college road in the town with 44 working children who were involved in various jobs. There are 100 students in the school at present.
The Kalyan School used to run between 2:00pm to 6:00pm, but now it is running from 4:30pm to 5:30pm as it starts after regular classes of Mahila Samity School are over. There are five teachers and a peon working in Kalyan School.
Mahila Samity School authorities asked Kohinoor to shift their school to a small room as a new building is being built on the school campus.
Kohinoor said they are facing accommodation crisis as the authorities have asked them to shift the school.
“I have informed the authorities concerned, including the deputy commissioner (DC), Shishu Kalyan Trust and district primary education officer of the matter,” she added.
“We have to take classes in a congested room,” she said, adding that the school cannot run from 2:00pm to 6:00pm as they have to start after classes of the primary school are over, which disrupts the education of the students.
Sukhi Akther of Swanirvor road slum said they have to sit in a tiny room. Farzana Akther of Kathpotty slum said, “I come to the school regularly but our study is greatly hampered due to accommodation crisis.”
DC of Patuakhali AKM Shamimul Haq Siddiqee, also SKS managing committee chairman, said they are looking for a piece of land to build a schoolhouse.
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