TN SSLC exam 2020: Permit Class X students to write exam in own schools, Teachers
Representative imageCOIMBATORE: With education minister K A Sengottaiyan clarifying that Class X board exams would be held come what may, teachers have appealed that students should be allowed to write exams in their own schools.
If students are allotted exam centres in other schools, transportation could prove to be a problem as well as social distancing, they said. Instead, all schools should be made exam centres and students should be allowed to write exams in their own schools, they said.
S Arunan, president of Tamil Nadu Government Employees Teachers Association, said if students from five or six schools are made to write exams in the same centre, maintaining personal distancing would be difficult and also transportation might be inconvenient. “The state should increase the number of exam centres, i.e., it should allow students to write the board exams in their own schools,” he said.
T Arulanandam, state auditor of Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teacher Association (TNHHSSGTA), seconded this. He said if the students of three or more schools are clubbed and are assigned at the same exam centre, some students would have to travel 10km-12km to reach the centres.
“Parents might face problems to bring their children all the way and buses might also not be available in proper time. So the state should announce students’ own schools as their exam centres. In this way, there could be 10 or fewer students in one exam hall and there would be social distancing. Teachers from other schools could be deployed as invigilators, to ensure fairness,” he said.
This might be difficult in terms of getting question papers to all the exam centres and collecting answer scripts from all of them, but given the pandemic situation, this is the only way to ensure personal safety, and the state should consider it, he said.
The state should ensure there is proper public transport for students and teachers so that they reach exam centres in time. “Students should be given hand sanitisers, masks, and other protective measures at the exam centres,” Arulanandam said.
If students are allotted exam centres in other schools, transportation could prove to be a problem as well as social distancing, they said. Instead, all schools should be made exam centres and students should be allowed to write exams in their own schools, they said.
S Arunan, president of Tamil Nadu Government Employees Teachers Association, said if students from five or six schools are made to write exams in the same centre, maintaining personal distancing would be difficult and also transportation might be inconvenient. “The state should increase the number of exam centres, i.e., it should allow students to write the board exams in their own schools,” he said.
T Arulanandam, state auditor of Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teacher Association (TNHHSSGTA), seconded this. He said if the students of three or more schools are clubbed and are assigned at the same exam centre, some students would have to travel 10km-12km to reach the centres.
“Parents might face problems to bring their children all the way and buses might also not be available in proper time. So the state should announce students’ own schools as their exam centres. In this way, there could be 10 or fewer students in one exam hall and there would be social distancing. Teachers from other schools could be deployed as invigilators, to ensure fairness,” he said.
This might be difficult in terms of getting question papers to all the exam centres and collecting answer scripts from all of them, but given the pandemic situation, this is the only way to ensure personal safety, and the state should consider it, he said.
The state should ensure there is proper public transport for students and teachers so that they reach exam centres in time. “Students should be given hand sanitisers, masks, and other protective measures at the exam centres,” Arulanandam said.
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