Stopping serving teachers� coaching business

Teachers cannot under the service rules simultaneously undertake both public employment and private trade. It is as simple as that

The draft Education Law 2016 has provisions for fines and jail terms for schoolteachers who take classes in private coaching centres. However, many experts have expressed doubts as to whether these measures would actually stop teachers from private coaching. We do believe that any teacher has the option to voluntarily retire/resign from service and then uninhibitedly run a tuition business. But they cannot under the service rules simultaneously undertake both public employment and private trade. It is as simple as that.
Private tuition by serving teachers is a serious educational malpractice which requires outright condemnation by all the right-thinking individuals, most of all by serious academicians. Defense of this malaise by any of them is completely unexpected. There is no alternative to classroom teaching. Private coaching has become an alarming situation. Guardians who desperately run to teachers for private coaching for their wards also have to come forward to stop it. Teaching is not like other professions.
Teachers are expected to make themselves available to the students even beyond class hours and help and guide students without any remuneration or reward. And the fact is many teachers actually practice this.
The investment of time and effort in the business of private tuitions naturally leaves teachers with little energy or inclination for regular class teaching. One needs to investigate as to when and how these teachers find time to update themselves in the latest developments in their respective subjects, add to their scholarship, conduct and encourage original research and hone their skills of analysis, interpretation and appraisal. If a teacher were to honestly engage himself in these academic pursuits, he would surely have no time for mass tuitions.
Those trying to justify the racket of tuitions should remember instances of teachers manipulating examination duties with a view to actively assisting students receiving private tuition. Whoever adopts teaching as a profession assumes the obligation to conduct himself in accordance with the ideals of the profession. A teacher is constantly under the scrutiny of his students and the society at large. Therefore, every teacher should see that there is no incompatibility between his precepts and practice.
Before the tuition craze set root into our system, students made the extra effort of staying back after class to ask questions and teachers provided remedial classes that were part of the school system and not an additional activity. Private coaching may seem to many as the easiest way out. However, it needs to be realised that what may seem like the easiest way out may not be the best in the long run after all.

 

Stopping serving teachers� coaching business

Teachers cannot under the service rules simultaneously undertake both public employment and private trade. It is as simple as that

The draft Education Law 2016 has provisions for fines and jail terms for schoolteachers who take classes in private coaching centres. However, many experts have expressed doubts as to whether these measures would actually stop teachers from private coaching. We do believe that any teacher has the option to voluntarily retire/resign from service and then uninhibitedly run a tuition business. But they cannot under the service rules simultaneously undertake both public employment and private trade. It is as simple as that. Private tuition by serving teachers is a serious educational malpractice which requires outright condemnation by all the right-thinking individuals, most of all by serious academicians. Defense of this malaise by any of them is completely unexpected. There is no alternative to classroom teaching. Private coaching has become an alarming situation. Guardians who desperately run to teachers for private coaching for their wards also have to come forward to stop it. Teaching is not like other professions. Teachers are expected to make themselves available to the students even beyond class hours and help and guide students without any remuneration or reward. And the fact is many teachers actually practice this. The investment of time and effort in the business of private tuitions naturally leaves teachers with little energy or inclination for regular class teaching. One needs to investigate as to when and how these teachers find time to update themselves in the latest developments in their respective subjects, add to their scholarship, conduct and encourage original research and hone their skills of analysis, interpretation and appraisal. If a teacher were to honestly engage himself in these academic pursuits, he would surely have no time for mass tuitions. Those trying to justify the racket of tuitions should remember instances of teachers manipulating examination duties with a view to actively assisting students receiving private tuition. Whoever adopts teaching as a profession assumes the obligation to conduct himself in accordance with the ideals of the profession. A teacher is constantly under the scrutiny of his students and the society at large. Therefore, every teacher should see that there is no incompatibility between his precepts and practice. Before the tuition craze set root into our system, students made the extra effort of staying back after class to ask questions and teachers provided remedial classes that were part of the school system and not an additional activity. Private coaching may seem to many as the easiest way out. However, it needs to be realised that what may seem like the easiest way out may not be the best in the long run after all.