Eastern Naga Students Federation (ENSF) has appealed to all stakeholders of the Department of School Education within the four district of Eastern Nagaland- Tuensang, Mon, Longleng, and Kiphire- not to organize any form of agitation during mid-academic year.
In a press note, president, ENSF, Shahsha L Menhahu, and gen. secretary, Topongchuba Chang, requested all concerned to focus on the career and quality of the students education in general instead of diverting the main aspiration and motive as a teacher and an employee of the school education department so as to build up an informed and a qualified populace in the state.
“The present imbroglio of the school education department does not justify quality education to the students and when the education system is in a transitional stage the students community do not expect the teaching community to derail the daily classes due to the problem within the department or the issue of the bifurcation of secondary and higher secondary school,” ENSF stated.
Maintaining that private schools were consistently performing well because they have a composite school from class A-12 under one administration where teachers and school administrator get to nurture the students for long years and, as a result of the good management system, students produce good results, ENSF observed that unlike private schools, government schools were set up in such a way that the primary schools, middle school, high school and higher secondary schools were located in different places which have let to poor coordination leading to poor results.
The federation also reminded both the Education Departmental officials and the respected teaching community that quality education should be paramount while making policy related to education and student’s interest should always be on priority.
Further, pointing out that NBSE had fixed the date of compartmental exam for the failed students starting from June 1, ENSF, considering the career of the students, warned it would not tolerate any kind of agitation, be it democratic or undemocratic form, as it would directly hamper the career of “our” students.
In this regard, ENSF appealed to all the teaching communities in Eastern Nagaland to abstain from any sort of agitation.