One teacher for 104 students in a class

LANDIKOTAL: The Molagori residents have demanded constructions of classrooms and teachers for the overcrowded government-run high school established in 1963 in Lowara Mina in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency.
Ezzat Gul, a Senior English Teacher (SET), told The News on Friday that during the last several years no concern official came to the school to witness the bitter situation in the school. He said the number of the enrolled students reached to 900 in the school for which they have only 17 teachers. He said it was illogical to teach such a huge numbers of students with the limited teachers. Have no other space, the teacher said, they have squeezed-in 104 students of 9th grade in a single classroom which was not morally good to set more than 25 students in a class. He said it was not possible for them to control and check the students’ home and class work in a single period of 40 minutes.
The school was established in 1963 as Maktab(seminary) was converted into government school in 1974 but none of the concern authority and official have so far taken a single step for the betterment of the school, said Ezzat Gul. He said that all the boundary walls have been damaged by heavy rains while the structures of the classrooms were in deteriorated condition.
Noor Khan, another teacher at the same school said that they have no washroom for both teacher and students. Sain Gul and Noor Islam said that they have filed many applications in offices of the Fata secretariat officials and Khyber Agency Education offices to address their problems but in vain.
The teachers in the school and local elders demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor and federal Education minister to take a sincere action for the construction of new classrooms and sanction them more qualified teachers.