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COIMBATORE: Expressing concerns over the recent incidents of some government school students threatening and teasing teachers in classrooms, school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Saturday asked the education department officials to conduct surprise inspections in schools.
Addressing a regional-level review meeting at the PSG College of Technology here, he said both the students and teachers had to learn to manage their emotions.
“Balancing their emotions will help their emotional wellbeing. These incidents are taking place because of the gap in the learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic,” the minister said and directed the chief education officers, district education officers and block education officers to make surprise visits to the schools reporting odd incidents.
Poyyamozhi said the students who threaten or tease the teachers must be offered psychological counselling, while punishing them simultaneously to avoid such incidents in the future.
Advising the students to overcome exam fear, the minister asked the district collectors to ensure enough protection for the rooms where the question and answer papers were stored. “Conducting exams is similar to conducting elections. The rooms where question and answer papers are stored must be protected in order to prevent any paper leakages.”
Pointing out that dilapidated school buildings were being demolished, Poyyamozhi said the classes must be conducted at alternative facilities until the students were allotted classrooms.
“We hear that the classrooms are overcrowded, as several private school students have recently joined the government schools. The education department must enhance the infrastructure at the schools. Officials must obtain a list of projects to be implemented using the funds from local MLAs,” he said.
The minister also spoke about establishing hi-tech English labs in the schools, solving issues on EMIS portal, creating state education policy and providing activity-based learning techniques for the students.
Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan had earlier urged the state government to adopt certain salient features of the national education policy for the welfare of the students.
The review meeting was attended by school education commissioner N Nandakumar, elementary education director Dr G Arivoli, district collector Dr G S Sameeran and other officials.
Addressing a regional-level review meeting at the PSG College of Technology here, he said both the students and teachers had to learn to manage their emotions.
“Balancing their emotions will help their emotional wellbeing. These incidents are taking place because of the gap in the learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic,” the minister said and directed the chief education officers, district education officers and block education officers to make surprise visits to the schools reporting odd incidents.
Poyyamozhi said the students who threaten or tease the teachers must be offered psychological counselling, while punishing them simultaneously to avoid such incidents in the future.
Advising the students to overcome exam fear, the minister asked the district collectors to ensure enough protection for the rooms where the question and answer papers were stored. “Conducting exams is similar to conducting elections. The rooms where question and answer papers are stored must be protected in order to prevent any paper leakages.”
Pointing out that dilapidated school buildings were being demolished, Poyyamozhi said the classes must be conducted at alternative facilities until the students were allotted classrooms.
“We hear that the classrooms are overcrowded, as several private school students have recently joined the government schools. The education department must enhance the infrastructure at the schools. Officials must obtain a list of projects to be implemented using the funds from local MLAs,” he said.
The minister also spoke about establishing hi-tech English labs in the schools, solving issues on EMIS portal, creating state education policy and providing activity-based learning techniques for the students.
Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan had earlier urged the state government to adopt certain salient features of the national education policy for the welfare of the students.
The review meeting was attended by school education commissioner N Nandakumar, elementary education director Dr G Arivoli, district collector Dr G S Sameeran and other officials.
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