64 schools have no headmaster in Jhenidah
Sixty-four government and non-government secondary schools are running without headmasters and assistant headmasters in the district amid serious difficulties in academic and administrative activities.
Sources say none of the three government schools and 61 of the 281 non-government institutions have headmasters in six upazilas in the district.
Jhenidah Govt Model School, Govt Girls' School in the town and Harinakundo Upazila Govt Girls' School are running without headmasters.
Besides, 18 of the 80 privately run secondary schools in the sadar upazila are operating without headmasters.
Shailkupa upazila has 44 secondary schools and 13 of them don't have headmasters.
In Harinakundo upazila, four of 25 schools, in Moheshpur upazila 15 of 70 schools, in Kotchandpur upazila two of 22 schools, and in Kaliganj upazila nine of 40 schools have the posts of headmaster vacant.
School insiders say teachers are reluctant to abide by the rules and regulations in absence of the headmasters and are getting involved in different conflicts as assistant headmasters are working as acting headmasters.
Academic as well as administrative activities in these schools are severely being hampered. As the assistant headmasters are performing additional duties, five or six classes scheduled for each of them are daily being skipped.
Students are being deprived of these classes as other teachers are reluctant to take those, said Abdus Samad, acting headmaster of Roghunathpur Secondary School in Kaliganj.
Isahaq, senior teacher of Naldanga Bhusan Pilot Secondary School, said the situation arises as there are no hard and fast rules in the government.
He said those who are senior teachers do not have minimum two second divisions as they passed the degrees in late 1970s. During that time it was very "difficult" to obtain first and second divisions, he claims.
Against this backdrop, the government should consider the appointment system in non-government institutions, he added.
Contacted, District Education Officer Atahar Rahman said most of the institutions have no managing committees to take steps to solve the problems.
Besides, the acting headmasters are reluctant to run the process of appointing headmasters as they want to remain in the posts, he added.
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