Hyderabad: About one lakh student from 300 Hyderabad’s private budget schools have been ‘lost’ from online classes for the past 12 months.
Associate this with the failure of parents to pay fees, school management on Saturday said that this data – collected by the Association of Management School Associent (TRSMA) Telangana – is an indication of two trends: increase in the number of dropouts and higher registration in the free government .
Of the 2,041 private schools recognized in Hyderabad, almost 1,800 are budget schools that charge an annual fee of up to RS 35,000.
The average strength of these schools – located in areas such as Mehdipatnam, Marredpally, Kukatpally – is between 250 and 500.
Being hit by a pandemic in March, 2020 these schools, such as others, were forced to switch to class- online class.
A year later, 300 of them stare at the closure with the majority of their students ‘lost’ in action.
“In many schools, the power has dropped from 600 in 2019-20 to less than 300 in 2021-22 of many families with little or no income has not been able to pay fees or buy the gadget needed to attend online classes.
Many calls to people Old does not produce a response.
We are now wondering whether we should consider these students as drop out of school and turn off our school, “said S Madhusudan, Trsma advisor.
He emphasized the possibility of many students, from this no-show list, shifted to government schools without finding a transfer certificate.
Incidentally, teachers from government schools recognize more students from private schools that appear in their institutions for the past year.
“We have observed an increase of up to 20% in registration from private public schools.
This is largely due to the inability to pay fees,” said Chava Ravi, Secretary General of the Federation of Telangana State Teachers.
He, however, was quick to add: “Registration in government schools seems like a temporary arrangement for many parents to the physical class continued (when they don’t need gadgets, etc.).” This reduced figure is added with revenue in the pre-prejudice and primary section down to almost zero, has left the management of the school concerned about their survival.
Given the rental situation of the private budget school, TRSMA is now compiling a more consolidated data on the decline in registration throughout the budget school, learning outcomes among students, etc., when urging the state government to reopen the school.
“Many parents view that if there is no physical class, there is no need to pay any fees and that their children will be automatically promoted to the next class.
In such situations, it becomes very difficult for the budget school to stay,” Uma said Maheshwara Rao, a private budget school correspondent.
When Tii contacted R Rohini, district education officers, Hyderabad, for comments, he said that they had received two or three applications closing from the school.
“Representatives of Trsma reaches me to quote a bad presence for online classes.
However, we have not independently verified their claims.
We will expand help if the school is looking for closure for the original reason,” Rohini said.