Brahmanpara Upazila Nirbahi Officer, photo-collected.
Comilla (Brahmanpara) Representative//

Brahmanpara Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) SM Azharul Islam expressed his anger on Facebook as none of the three candidates passed the head teacher appointment test.

He expressed his anger on the official Facebook page on Sunday (June 23) night. Earlier, the upazila model school (primary school equivalent) head teacher recruitment exam was held at Brahmanpara, Comilla.

SM Azharul Islam wrote, ‘Usually I don’t share personal frustration/anger on official Facebook profile. But I can’t share one thing.

Upazila Parishad Model School conducts a recruitment exam for the post of head teacher. There are equal eligibility criteria (age also) for appointment of primary school head teachers. Out of 9 applicants, 3 were rejected on the basis of documents, age and remaining 6 were called for the written test. Three people were present there. These three have been informed that they will have a written test of 80 marks and an oral test of 20 marks. These 80 marks were on Bengali, English, Mathematics, General Knowledge.

Out of the three participants, two scored 2.5 and 9. I did not read wrong, the marks obtained by the candidates for the appointment of the head teacher of an institution in the written test of 80 marks are 2.5 and 9. The rest didn’t get that bad but didn’t get the pass mark… Reading this, many people may think that the question must have been very difficult? To their knowledge, the examinee did not know the meaning of the idiom ‘Akash Kusum’ nor the English of the sentence ‘His mother is a housewife’ or the sentence ‘Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh’. They do not know a few pure sentences about Bangabandhu’s historic March 7 speech.

This is the standard and condition of our education. Why so many educated unemployed in the country? My question behind this answer is – Why are there so many ‘educated’ people in the country? The state of appointment of a primary school head teacher has gone like this.

A few months ago, I asked the question “Write about yourself in ten sentences” (mark 10) in the recruitment exam of a reputed secondary school in the upazila. Six of the seven candidates (who have experience as a teacher for 10+ years) did not answer yes, one did, he 4- He managed to write 5 sentences in English. Needless to say, no one passed the written test. That means they have been teaching for ten years or more.’