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In this representation, the complainants have raised a number of critical issues that
you need to address immediately. According to the students, the current quality of
education is so bad that it is depriving them of their fundamental right to good
education. They also complain that teachers in your school are not fully qualified to
teach any subject that is required in the contemporary job market. They have urged
you to replace all such teachers with properly educated teachers.
Students and their parents observe that in the current system there is no connection
between education and students’ employability. And instead of taking steps to
overhaul the education paradigm, teachers - who are mostly incompetent - are
blindly following obsolete education models. Teachers never tried to set the career
paths of students in order to make them employable while the ongoing archaic
education is not useful for them.
In their representation, the students also have suggested a few remedial steps that
you can take immediately. If you think you are not in a position to improve the
education system in your school to the entire satisfaction of the aggrieved students
and parents, you should formally escalate their concerns to the higher authorities in
the Education Department or the Delhi Government.
You are requested to take these remedial steps immediately because all your school
teachers are being paid with public money. If your services are not acceptable to
students and parents, you are not supposed to be holding your jobs.
In response to the enclosed representation, you are expected to:
1. Create a new syllabus for your school students in different classes in consultation
with the top employers in the contemporary job market.
2. Create a suitable test for all the teachers in your school keeping in view the new
syllabus and subjects that they are supposed to teach. If the teachers are not able to
clear the test, you should recommend the termination of their services.
3. Create the career path - along with the employment probability - of each student in
different streams of education that you would impart in the new system.
You are also requested to send me your response - including the steps that you
have taken to address the above issues - at the address given below within 15 days
of receiving this letter. If the students and parents are not satisfied with your
response, RMN Foundation will have to seek the right administrative and / or legal
remedy to get necessary changes, including replacement of teachers, in your school
and for which you will be personally responsible as the head of the school.
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