Teachers working in government schools are cut up with the tasks being assigned to them during summer holidays.
Teachers are asked to organise mid-day meal scheme, hold remedial classes to students lagging behind and take up online training by downloading an App.
While reiterating their commitment to programmes meant for student improvement and mid-day meal, teacher unions resent the manner in which each of them are being implemented.
Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teacher Organisations (FAPTO) that comprises several unions has protested and called for a boycott of the online training and remedial classes.
Advance information and orders should have been issued so as to inform students to stay back for it. As a result, very few students are turning up at schools and they are exposed to the extreme heat conditions when even adults are advised to stay indoors, says a teacher. Alternately, the implementation could be handed over to agencies running the scheme. Similarly, if remedial classes are to be conducted, they need to be held all over the State and not merely in drought-affected mandals, they say.
Action is taken against private institutions for holding classes in summer and how the same can be taken up in government schools, they point out.
MLC from North Andhra Teachers Constituency Pakalapati Raghu Varma, who took up the issues as well as training at a stretch for 24 days to select headmasters, says all efforts to improve the academic system are welcome. But it should be implemented by making the tasks during the summer holidays also a part of the annual academic calendar, the MLC demanded.
He represented the issues to the Commissioner of School Education and urged her to prepare students and teachers mentally before hand but not by issuing orders overnight.
The mid-day meal scheme should be implemented but with students not turning up the effort of teachers is going waste, he points out.
