Has education lost its function in Sindh

 

Has education lost its function in Sindh?

Has education lost its function in Sindh?

Many calamities have become insignificant in the era of covid calamity, many events, accidents, encounters and news which are the sight of centuries of travelers cannot even make a day's journey. A similar news was published about the number of children out of school. According to this news, forty-four percent of the school-going children in Sindh are out of school. Every third child is absent from school. The age of school going children is between 6 to 16 years. It means that almost half of the children of that age are out of school. What does out of school mean, they never go to school or they are away from school due to covid closure or they have left school.

It is generally believed that a large number of children have dropped out of school due to Covid. There is truth in this, but the real number will be known only when the education process is fully restored. Education is free, there is a school enrollment department, but it takes time to collect school dropout statistics. While these numbers have recently been revealed by the Pakistan Alliance for Math and Science Institute, which was also given to the media on September 3. Just informed. It means that in 2018, when there was no epidemic, the same number of children were out of school. Therefore, the factor of global epidemic cannot be given.

This situation has been the same for the last decade. By searching on the internet, there are statistics of children out of school, twenty years of educational reforms in Sindh. There is a lot of noise in Sindh regarding the plight of government schools and the qualifications of staff appointed there. But the rulers ignore all this noise as if nothing happened. Among the children who are getting education, 60% of the children are enrolled in private institutions, only 40% of the children study in the government schools of Sindh, whose overall educational ability is another debate.

But what is the reason that even in this modern era, the people of Sindh are not ready to educate their children, or do not feel the need? Has education lost its function in Sindh or has the expectations associated with education been lost? After all, why are a large number of rural children away from schools even in this modern age? According to the survey of this organization, only Karachi and Hyderabad are two such areas where children enroll in schools, while children in the rural districts of Sindh are deprived of education. In thirteen districts of Sindh, the number of out-of-school children is more than fifty percent.

While the number of children enrolled in schools in Pakistan has not increased by one percent from two thousand eleven. Which means that the whole country is experiencing panic attacks. But the condition of Sindh is worse than that of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The situation is better in Punjab, where the enrollment of five-year-old children in Rajanpur district alone is 82% of the rest of the province. After that is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a large part of the province has been in a state of war, a large number of people have been displaced, despite this, the education rate is better. Children go to Madrasas instead of schools, the number of children outside schools is ninety percent. But the overall situation is better.

But in the districts of Sindh, where there has been no civil war-like atmosphere, nor any linguistic riots, what are the reasons that such a large number of children are out of school, the situation has been the same for decades. The situation has not improved even one percent in ten years. The party won from the villages of Sindh for ten years is ruling in Sindh, there is a democratic system, and education is now a provincial department. It has been eight years since the budget was completely transferred to the province. Because of this, the ruling party cannot recover from it. If the government can improve its performance in terms of health, why has attention not been given to education? The question also arises that what is the main reason for this, why the relatives do not enroll the child in schools, the relatives are ignorant, they are not intelligent or there is some other reason.

If you read the entire report of the Pak Alliance, it is clear that a large number of rural children are out of school, where 100 percent of people depend on government schools, government primary schools are the only source of education. But the condition of these schools is not such that children can study there. There is no drinking water for children in the schools, there are no latrines, there is no fence, there is no furniture inside the schools. The school buildings are dilapidated, rotting and rubbish. Because the children of the poor study in these schools, no one improves the condition of the schools, nor does anyone raise a voice for them.

Most of the teachers work in newspapers and are associated with journalism, which makes it difficult to take action against them. It was learned from the campaign in the name of Gosoro teachers that the appointed teachers were getting paid but they were not teaching in the schools. take Most of them are sitting at home and doing their homework.

The rulers of this country have the same knowledge, that's why they keep the poor uneducated and half-educated. But if all the blame is put on the parents, if they do not teach the children or if the teachers are humiliated, no one asks them who hired such teachers. Among the reasons for dropping out of school in this survey, only 11 percent of children drop out of school due to parents stopping them, in which the majority are girls. Therefore, instead of blaming the ignorance and poverty of the parents, we should look at the real reasons for keeping half of Sindh illiterate and ignorant. The biggest challenge at the moment is the accountability of Shahi, the most corrupt official of the education department, along with the appointment of teachers on merit, and preventing them from doing the same business, which does not seem to be happening at present.

In the last few years, the procedure of appointment of teachers has been made quite transparent, by giving them better grades, their economic condition has been improved. At present, public school teachers are getting paid better than expensive private school teachers. It is also their duty to restore the reputation of their sector in the society and improve the entire educational process. The society also makes a plan to appreciate their services so that they are aware of the importance of their profession. Along with this, the government will also have to see that out-of-school children will have to use or think of non-traditional educational methods to educate them.

The only source of education is not the building of the school, nor the physical presence of the teacher, during the Covid-19, new methods were tried all over the world to connect children with books and education outside of school. Similarly, these children, who are almost equal to half of Sindh's children's population, cannot be left alone. Schools, Ustads, Bhutars, Bhutars, Minsters, there is a huge field that can be discussed beyond these, there are also non-traditional methods of education. The importance and usefulness of education is not only a job but to create a better society and society. Even if these children do not get a traditional degree, they can be trained in a way that they can get a practical skill and book education as needed for that skill.

For the rest of the current discussion, if traditional methods are used to solve the problems, it is not possible to enroll 100% of the children in the current period of poverty, economic crisis and inflation or to educate them for the next ten years. Without better teaching and learning, the dream of a prosperous, progressive society will never be realized.