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Class- Vfinal exams in CHT
I am very pleased to learn that for the first time the govt, has introduced Class* V final exams intending to improve the education standard in the country. This will definitely help to ensure quality education in our society. An NGO named Koinonia has been running an education programme named Tribal Children Education Programme with a total of 100 schools in 4 upazilas under Bandarban district since 2005. As this organisation is mainly involved with education programme, it has gained some knowledge/experience on the present status quo of education among the indigenous children in the remote areas. In light of the experience gained, 1 would like to share some of my views on the new rules of class- five final exams.
Considering the overall situation, I am not convinced whether the same rules that applied in the plain land could be practised in the Chittagong Hill TYacts (CHT) or not, because the state of education, socio-economic and geographical location of the CHT is quite different from the rest of the country. Though there are many contributing factors behind the prevailing situation of education in the CHT, some of them may be mentioned as follows:
1) In many schools, students of class five could hardly read, speak or write in Bangla properly, not to speak of English, in the remote areas.
2) Spending a couple of hours with teacher in the class is far from being enough for learning Bangla or English forthem.
3) The schools (govt. & non-govt.) an not running regularly in the remote areas.
4) On the excuse of security concerr in the remote areas, a good number o schools are run by proxy teachers whe are half-educated (non-matriculate).
5) There is none around to help stu dents in their lessons back home during studies. In other words, there is nc conducive environment for studies foi tribal children at home. They neec intellectual support as well as emo tional support to help them increase their interest in studies.
6) Since parents/guardians are living from hand to mouth, many of their were reluctant or unable to send then children for the exams away from home
Against this backdrop, I am not sun whether these students can pass the exams or not. If they fail they will obvi ously lose their interest in studies.
Under the circumstances, if the govt imposes the same rules that are applied in the plain land, I am afraic whether it will serve its purpose. 1 per sonally feel that instead of increasing the enrolment rate, the newly intro duced rules might rather increase the dropout rate among the indigenous students in the CHT.
The government should take intc account the reality of the CHT anc think twice if the same measure; applied in the plain land would be applicable for the indigenous childrer in the CHT.
K.Rema Bandarban