Criticism creates over teachers’ engagement in movement instead of teaching

Kazipur Correspondent:

Severe criticism has created as about three hundreds of teachers joined in a movement instead of teaching at class-rooms to press home a demand of forming new upazila namely Jamuna in Sirajganj district.

Educationists said, if teachers get down in the street for movements like political parties, academic activities in the educational institutions will face a crisis in future. Carrying movement to press home any demand is not work of teachers. Their work is teaching in the class-rooms to build up students’ future. Instead of this, teachers are nowadays taking part in different movements on different excuses, which have now become a fashion. Inaction of the authorities concerned is also responsible for rising of such trend, they added.

It is to be mentioned that, about 300 teachers of 21 primary schools and 15 secondary schools held a rally at the hall room of Natuarpara Degree College in Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj district on Saturday (November 8) demanding declaration of Jamuna upazila covering six remote unions in Kazipur shoal. The six unions include Natuarpara, Tekani, Khasrajbari, Nishchintapur, Chargirish and Monsurnagor.

The programme was presided over by Abdus Salam, while Jamuna Upazila Bastabayon Parishad’s member and former union parishad chairman Abdul Quader, Engineer Faridul Islam, Sumon Mia and Saifullah Al Galib among others spoke on the occasion.

Seeking anonymity, a retired school teacher in Kazipur upazila said, the demand for new upazila is logical. But, staging demonstration in this regard is not work for teachers. Social workers and political people can raise their voice to press home such as demand. Teachers don’t have permission to participate all agitations anytime.

Nabakumar Karmakar, Bangladesh Somajtrantrik Dal (BSD) said, “If teachers take part in any movement to meet their demand centric for education that is Okayed. But, recently it is being observed that teachers are coming on streets with different political agendas, which are not their jobs. Teachers should not engage in agitations for issues other than their demands related to teaching and education.”