Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jul 27: Karnataka Stae Primary Teachers Association has asked the government to spare them of the need to work after duty hours for coaching weak students. It has suggested, that the 'remedial coaching' as it is known, be conducted during the normal school hours itself.

Speaking at a press conference held at the Patrika Bhavan in the city on Friday July 25, Association president Sridhar Ullal informed, that a system of providing remedial coaching to students who are slow learners, is being resorted to at present, after the school hours in the evening. The students too face the need to sit late while their classmates leave for their homes as soon as the final bell rings.  This results in a kind of isolation for them, giving rise to negative feelings in their minds. The need to attend special sessions of coaching makes them feel inferior to others, ultimately giving rise to dejection, forcing them to decide in favour of quitting schools, he said.

As the students would already have gone through the entire quota of classes for the day, their concentration levels reach a low ebb by evening. For teachers too, it becomes bothersome as they have to stay back for the purpose, he explained.

He felt, that the time for the remedial coaching can be set aside by slicing five minutes off every class of 60 minutes duration, by allotting the time so saved at the end of the day, for imparting remedial coaching.