Female students of the government girls’ middle school, Larai, along with their parents, staged a protest in the Alpuri chowk against the prolonged shortage of teachers at their school.
The female students who came from a distant Kana tehsil’s remote area, Larai, on Tuesday held a rally, which was led by their elders. Students carrying placards and banners inscribed with their demands and shouting slogans for the deployment of teachers at their school to save their future.
Students said on the occasion that their future was at greater risk as teachers were not coming to their school to teach them.
“We come here by travelling from the remote village of Larai, and our only demand is from the government to send teachers to our school so that we could receive education, which is our basic right,” Savera Bibi, a 7th-grade student, said.
She said they come to the school daily and wait for the teacher whole day, then return without studying.
Sardar Ali, a participant of the protest, one of the students’ fathers, said they had been requesting the district education department and administration to appoint teachers at the government girls middle school, Larai, but they did not take the issue seriously.
He said the school had been facing a shortage of teachers for the last several years, but now the only teacher was also not coming to the school, which directly affected their children’s time and study.
Shangla district is among the low-performing districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Education sector. A high number of female in the district is out of school.
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