School Education department pleads inability to pay salary for two temporary teachers in Ramanathapuram district; students told to go to another school; parents seek Collector’s intervention
Parents in Ramanathapuram are protesting a government directive that forces students to switch schools because the education department cannot pay two temporary teachers. The situation has sparked concerns about the accessibility of education for first-generation students in the Commerce stream.
Why it matters
This highlights systemic funding gaps in public education that directly impact student access and continuity of learning.
A group of parents submitted a memorandum to the District Collector Ramanathapuram seeking his intervention to post teachers for subjects like Economics, Commerce and Accountancy at a government school in Sikkal, Kadaladi block as the plus-one students were directed to go to another school to learn these subjects as the salaries for two temporary teachers could not be paid.
The memorandum that the parents gave to the Collector on Thursday stated that the School Education department officials had ‘directed’ the plus one students who had joined the newly introduced Commerce group at the Sikkal Government School to shift to another school to learn the special subjects.
When asked about the reason given by the officials for such a move, it was said that the department had informed that they had no provision to pay the salaries for the two temporary teachers, a parent told The Hindu .
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