Sudipta Roy Ghosh
Its really a matter to think about, teachers actually possess any right or not! And if so, what type of rights they are possessing. Teachers are protected from certain harms under the equal protection, but its a matter of great sorrow, all sectors' teachers are not equally treated. Though, they serve harder than the other sectors' employees.**Each & every developed countries' teachers have some basic rights. ( source : 17; 223 Rs Amendment) **They have the rights pertaining to their employment, including of certain freedoms, prohibition against certain forms of discrimination, and significant Protection against dismissal from their position.
**A teacher has the right to teach appropriately disciplined students..
* A teacher has the right to remove any persistently disruptive student from his classroom when the student 's behaviour presents the orderly instructions of other students or when the student display impudent or defiant behaviour.
** A teacher has the right to have his or her professional judgement.
** A teacher has the right to reach in a safe, secure and orderly environment that is conductive to learning and free from recognized dangers or hazards or likely to cause seriously injury.
** A teacher has the right to be treated with civility & respect.
** A teacher has the right to communicate with and to request the participation of parents in appropriate students' disciplinary discussions.
***** A teacher has the right to be free from excessively burdensome disciplinary paper works.
***A beginning teacher has the right to receive Leadership.
But sorry to say maximum developing country does not provide teachers the above rights. So that day by day our future generation are not getting proper learning, because for not getting polished rights & honour from the society people teachers become frustrated , they are losing their energy for teaching. After school whole day long they are doing tuition, part time job for earning family livelihood. For the shake of our future generation, for the enrichment of own land, teachers should not be deprived, because they are the educational backbone of the state.
As the teachers are making our future generation, the real human beings. In our Bangladesh, basically the private school teachers are neglected in different way. They are very ill paid. Some English medium school teachers are getting very high salary, but at any time they may be fired and it totally depends on the mood of the school owners. So that its a common picture in our Bangladesh, around 8℅ of school taechers leave the profession every year.
Almost two decades ago, Ingersoll estimated that up to 50 percent of knowledgeable people who, in their young life wanted to become teacher, but, quit their teaching job within five years, a figure that has been widely shared. More than 40℅ of teachers leave the profession within 5 years (According to the report of NEA).
The LPI study found that turnover rates are higher for teachers in schools of color.
The main reasons teachers quit jobs is, because of the poor working conditions make the teaching profession unbearable for even the best educators.
Actually, in any developing country teachers are neglected in different respects, suppose, general, people think, "School Teachers "? It means, they don't have any quality, or obviously they did not have any quality that's why they are private school teachers. The general people never even trust that, it may be one' s dream he or she will be a teacher, and will make real human being for the society applying his/her all toil & moil. Like this way teachers gradually losing their energy & turn into a frustrated one. Not only this, often they are discriminated by the general Law of states. Public school teachers & private school teachers are working at the same platform, private school teachers apply hard labour for getting out standing SSC or O &AS, A2 Levels' result which public school do not do. But they are facilated more & more than private school teachers.
Now this is the question, what is the right of private school teachers?
There are a number of English Medium schools in our Bangladesh & a number of students have been studying in this school. These schools are private school. In English medium school most of the students come from very rich and poweful family. Presently, English medium schools are growing in popularity among the middle class, upper middle class and even in the very average family.
The English medium schools nodoubt provide a standard International education, in the long run which helps people surviving in the modern world. This schools not only teach the students about their own countries but also about the International History & literature. This schools teach most of the subjects in English, Students of every country is taught their mother language too. Undoubtedly we have to say English medium schools develop the students "Language Skill".
Till, in our country at any suffering period English medium schools are treated like foreign birds without their nests.
A Bengali proverb goes, " A cuckoo baby is in the nest of crow ".( to be continued)
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