It is shocking to know that a ninth grade student of Holy Cross Girls’ High School committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of a 12-storey building at Tejgaon in the city on Tuesday. The girl named Parpeeta Faiha, 14, was frustrated by the higher math teacher who deliberately and intentionally did not give her a pass mark in math examination leading her to commit suicide.
It is alleged that the higher math teacher Shovan Rosario had been continuously asking the Parpeeta Faiha to take private tuition with him from the very beginning of new class. Shovan Rosario takes higher math classes of ninth grade students of section C and D of the institution. It is worth mentioning that out of 102 students of both sections 35 were failed in higher math in first terminal examination while 55 did not pass in second terminal examination.
Teachers who are engaged in
immoral and unethical activities are
not teachers in the true sense
Opening a tuition business at his residence, Shovan Rosario always asks the students to take private tuition with him. Otherwise, the students would not pass in the higher math subject. As the girl did not pay heed to the teacher, she could not secure the 33 percent mark required to pass the both first and second terminal examinations, according to media report. Department of Inspection and Audit, a government regulatory agency under the ministry of education has formed a probe committee to investigate the incident in this regard on Wednesday.
The government is going to pass a bill titled “Education Bill 2022” aiming to ensure quality education and check irregularities in school and colleges. The draft of the Education Bill has already been finalised and sent to the cabinet division to get its node.
The draft act stipulates that teachers will not be able to give private tuitions to students of their own institutions. It also seeks to ban corporal punishment for schoolchildren. However, coaching would not be considered banned and teachers would be allowed to provide private tuition as mentioned in the draft. So, the culture of private tuition will prevail.
Teachers who are engaged in immoral and unethical activities are not teachers in true sense. We hope the government will rethink the crucial issue before placing the bill in Parliament in its next session.
