It is very interesting to check the current situation of some of the present day schoolteachers who teach at state schools. They are more interested in everything else than teaching. Even when they teach, they teach children about the importance of doing Aragalaya and the hardships they face justifying their trade union actions.
Most of the time they do this through various WhatsApp groups of children created for study purposes. Now they have become brave enough to do it in live classrooms in state schools. Those are their interests.
They are not interested in teaching which they get paid. Last week President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed that no one would be permitted to disrupt school education between 7.30 am and 1.
30 pm and he has directed the Attorney General to consider further measures to ensure this. “It is imperative that the education of children is not hindered by school closures or strikes. Our actions must be taken with future generations in mind”, he added.
Present day teachers are only worried about their private tuition classes. Sometimes they punish or ignore poor students who do not attend their private tuition classes. The best part is not any of those.
They never teach in schools during school time. They do their own work or just rest in the `staff room’ chatting with other teachers. Most of the teachers just read the lesson and put the answers for questions on the black / white board.
This practice becomes a tragedy when it comes to teaching Mathema.
