Six rooms for 1,300 students!
Academic and administrative activities of a high school in Taltali upazila of Barguna are greatly hampered due to accommodation crisis.
A section of local youth set up the Lawpara Sagor Saikat High school on two acres of land in 1991 with very few students. Now, there are 1,248 students from Class VI to Class X in the institution, and the number is increasing as it provides quality education.
“We have two tin-sheds and a two-storied building in which there are only seven small rooms. One room is used as office room and another as multimedia classroom, while only five rooms are used as regular classrooms for the large number of students,” said Headmaster Golam Hayder.
All the classrooms are overcrowded and six to eight students have to sit on each bench, while some students have to stay standing during class, due to shortage of benches, chairs and tables, he said.
All 218 students passed SSC examinations last year from the school and all 224 in JSC examinations the same year, the headmaster said.
“Our institution was selected as the best institution in Taltali upazila in 2012 considering its academic result, but no infrastructural development has taken place to increase the accommodation capacity,” he said.
Mahfuza Munni, a student of Class IX, said they cannot write down any task in the class as eight students have to sit on each bench.
Upazila Secondary Education Officer Lutful Kabir Md Kamrul Hasan said the school has the highest number of students among schools in the upazila, so it is facing accommodation crisis.
“I visited the school many times and informed the higher authorities about the matter several times,” he added.
“I learnt that the process for construction of two new buildings to solve the accommodation problem has started. We also have a plan to set up a digital lab there,” Lutful added.
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