To reduce burden of teachers, Tiruvannamalai to restructure PTAs

The move would ensure that a parent representative was always present in the school campus daily, “The representative selected from the PTA will be also allocated a special room for this purpose,” said Jayakumar. Parents’ representatives would handle discipline related issues including improper dressing, unfit hairstyles, unnecessary absenteeism and general obduracy, added Jayakumar.

“Even today, teachers are held responsible for students’ absenteeism and this erodes the time and energy of the teachers. They are also burdened with issues that affects their regular teaching,” Jayakumar said. “If parent representative handle discipline related issue, then it relieves the teachers and helps them to concentrate on the teaching,” he averred. Each school would soon have ‘Students Discipline Development Committee’, he said.

The first Students Discipline Development Committee was inaugurated at the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Kil Pennathur, 25 kilometres from Tiruvannamalai on Wednesday. Elaborating on the pilot project, Jayakumar said, “The scheme will be tried out as a pilot project in the 150 government higher secondary schools for a month. Based on the result, the project will be extended to the 200 high schools, 300 middle schools and 1300 primary schools in the district.”

The scheme is carried out as a pilot project to see the willingness of parents to participate in the educational development of their wards. “As the response from the parents in Kil Pennathur was good, we started the project in this town,” he added. Teachers welcomed the move as the project helped them in concentrating on the academics’ part.