It was a mixed bag for DC Palamu Shantanu K Agrahari who went round the government schools located in the town and in the outskirts to find out as to how PTM (Parents Teachers Meet) is going about.
Sources said it was more a ‘raw’ experience than any ‘soft’ one as teachers had not done their home work any good for the PTMs. Sources said a door of the school was found closed and students many of them bare footed were lined up to say mid noon prayer before going home for the remaining hours of the day on Thursday.
On age-old black boards of the schools, which are neither pure black nor white because of chalk based writing there and none bothering to wash it every day a PTM was written in a very dull and lackluster manner.
Sources said there was dirt in the class room and outside too. At Urdu Girls Middle School Kasab mohalla Agrahari found just a dozen parents sitting as aloof as possible in the PTM while this school was getting ready for a half day closure today and full day closure on Friday as this school being Urdu one has its own holiday!
Agrahari spoke to a few parents present there like M K Alam, Uneza Parween and Saira Khatoon who could not explain as to for what they were so called in to the school by the head mistress N Yasmin.
He found the school in mess and asked DSE M Tudu accompanying him to look into this school. He was unhappy to find just around 50 students present out of the registered 228 and the head mistress too could not explain the poorest attendance of students and the parents.
At another PTM at Sarvodaya Girls High School he found the number of students ‘too good and encouraging’ but for parents he looked towards school’s head master S Ram who chewed more words than he could explain when DC asked him as to how many girls here who were found to be weak in academic pursuits have been lifted from the morass under the Gyan Setu programme.