Mission education: teachers do their best

Updated on: Wednesday, August 18, 2010

They are here with a mission. Teachers of Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Uthangarai, work for more than 12 hours to ensure that each and every student pass out of the school. It is to be noted that a majority of the students come from rural villages.

Teachers of SSLC and Plus-Two students take special classes for them on a rotation basis early morning and evening. At times these classes extend beyond 8.30 p.m. They take classes during summer vacation too instead of spending time with their spouses and children.

Such dedication has not gone waste. In the last SSLC examinations the school achieved 97 per cent result. Of the 334 students sat of the examination, 325 passed. One student failed in three subjects, six in two subjects and two students in one subject.

The school has achieved 100 per cent pass consecutively in the last five years in social science. And the credit goes to the subject teacher P. Govindaraj. Likewise, the school achieved 87 per cent result in the last Plus-Two examinations. Of the 454 students appeared for the examinations, 396 passed. Forty-five students failed in one subject and 12 in two subjects.

The school achieved cent per cent pass in biology, computer science, botany, zoology, economics and commerce. In physics, the pass percentage was 99.6 and in chemistry it was 95.. Under the vocational stream (Plant Production) all the eight students have passed in the examinations.

Post-Graduate Teachers for Tamil and English, respectively Bargunan and M. Karkuzhali take special efforts to achieve a pass percentage of 98 and 99.5 in the subjects. Such a result could be obtained only because of self-motivated teachers who volunteered to impart best education to rural students, says P. Ponnusamy, Head Master. Students from villages as far as 17 km from Uthangiri attend the school. A strong Parent-Teacher Association ensure that the school gets all necessary facilities, he says. Now the school has a Rs. 1-crore e-library to which school alumni and some philanthropists too contributed. A major hurdle the students face is lack of adequate bus facility from Harur and Chengam, says Mr. Ponnusamy. Many petitions were submitted to transport authorities and District Collectors in this regard but no concrete action has been taken so far, he says. Officials have also taken note of the school's achievements. The school is a role-model for the district, say Chief Educational Officers G. Murthy, and M. Baskaran.

The school's achievements do not stop with academics. Many of its students have made a mark in sports and extra curricular activities. M. Ranjit Kumar (Plus-One) lead the National team in Kho-Kho. He, along with M. Vijay, Rajesh and V. Sivakumar formed part of the Tamil Nadu State team that won the gold medal in the all-India PYKKA National Sports event held in Punjab recently.

K. Anbazhagan and S. Karthick ( Standard X) won medals in the under-17 kho-kho competition conducted by the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) in Madhya Pradesh.

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