{"id":7674,"date":"2016-11-14T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2016-11-14T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:20:04","slug":"private-schools-association-urges-govt-decide-fate-lower-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=7674","title":{"rendered":"Private Schools\u2019 Association urges Govt to decide fate of lower classes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cGovt indecision on promotion or examination pushing students, schools, parents into uncertainty\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

Srinagar:<\/strong> Private Schools\u2019 Association of Kashmir has urged the government to clear its stand on the fate of classes 1 to 9 and class 11, as there is no communication from government whether they will hold examination for these classes or approve \u2018Provisional Promotion\u2019 declared by the Private Schools.<\/em>
\nThe Association said that the private schools decided to provide provisional promotion to the classes 1st to 9th and class 11 as a humane gesture, but government is maintaining a silence on the final decision. \u201cWe had taken a decision to provide provisional promotion to students as a measure to relieve them of uncertainty of academic session and the related stress,\u201d said G N Var president PSAK in a statement.\u201cBut the government is maintaining a dangerous silence over the matter. Wherever we go to officials they say we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/em>
\nThe Association said that if government decides to go with the promotion then it will be a win-win situation for all and if it decides to go ahead with the examinations then we will also prepare accordingly.<\/em>
\nThe Association said that it is not the matter of only six lakh private school students but equal number of students are in government schools too who too are facing the stressful situation. \u201cThe government is not taking a final call on the lower class examinations. It is irony that students are being made to suffer for the indecisiveness of the government,\u201d said Var. \u201cWe took the decision of provisional promotion as private schools usually register 100 % pass percentage and examinations constitute just an evaluation\/assessment to determine the merit. According to national policy and Right To Education Act no student can be detained upto class 8th, so providing promotion was natural.\u201d<\/em>
\nThe Association said that the government to remaining indifferent to the woes of students. \u201cWe are trying hard to bring some semblance to disturbed academic calendar, but we are not finding equal partners in government. They are more concerned with Class 10 and 12 examinations but other classes are equally important and we need to take a final call,\u201d said Var. \u201cWe are at the end of the year and if a final decision is not taken soon, then it will become a huge problem for all of us.\u201d<\/em>
\nThe Association also appealed the Chief Minister to scrap the decision of order by which Class 8th examinations are being conducted by SIE (state institute of education). \u201cClass 8th examinations are just regular examinations and there is no logic in entrusting its conduct to DIET. It is unnecessary burden on government, student and parents. Moreover our selection of books and scheme of evaluation is different. We appeal the government to revert back to old system wherein the examination was conducted by the respective schools,\u201d said Var.<\/em>
\nThe Association assured the students and parents that despite all odds, it won\u2019t allow the lost of an academic year. \u201cSituation is not conducive, government too is indecisive and not willing to cooperate and there are other problems, but we will do whatever is in our hands to minimize the damage to the student community,\u201d said Var.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGovt indecision on promotion or examination pushing students, schools, parents into uncertainty\u201d Srinagar: Private Schools\u2019 Association of Kashmir has urged the government to clear its stand on the fate of classes 1 to 9 and class 11, as there is no communication from government whether they will hold examination for these classes or approve \u2018Provisional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}