Schools in Pakistan with unavailable features are the common thing to observe. In this narrative, one tries to explain the conditions of lower Punjab schools in Pakistan. The narrative will take about 4 minutes to read and explore the conditions of government schools in Pakistan. One is not trying to make any negative thought about the Pakistan as a whole. One has agenda to highlight some aspects of state wordiness about the education emergency and its benefits for the population. In reality, the primary to lowest and highest level schools are bound to do anything such due to lack of fund.
The condition of the education system in Pakistan has no future because there are no funds in lower Punjab to resolve issues of drinking water and proper boundary wall in the school. The provision of education to the poor is the myth in Pakistan because there are no or least funds allocated at the lowest level to accomplish so-called educational agendas. The most country’ population is under the poverty line and the line is shifting down day by day.
Township, a densely populated slum. Most of the parents are compelled to send their children in religious seminaries (Madaris) due to the lack of state-run schools and quality education.
Since, most of the public schools were built when the town was small in size, but latter, when population grew up, government didn’t bother to increase the number of public schools, therefore, the existing schools do not meet the requirement of the growing population.
“The conditions of the exiting state-run schools are not good,” said renowned right based activist and human rights defender Jibran Nasir, adding that the government teachers are not attending the schools on regular basis and also there are no basic facilities such as toilets, drinking water, library and cleanness and even electricity and furniture, therefore the parents prefer not to enroll their children in public schools. “Since most of the people are poor and they cannot afford private schools’ fee, they are taking their children to the traditional religious seminaries”, added Nasir.
Jibran recently conducted a detailed study of the area that found that once there was a Home Schools Program initiated by a Non Government Organization (NGO) but the parent didn’t take interest to send their young girls in those home schools. “Thus, the Home Schools Program failed to achieve its objectives of educating the children of the area”, the research revealed.
Despite, around five government schools functioning in the area, there is no higher and secondary school out of these existed schools. “The children are suffering from a real problem due to the absence of a quality education in government schools. The government schools are in horrible condition where educational activities are not likely to be conducted”, Jibran added.
Apart from this, the parents are unable to pay for private education. “We encourage them to partake in uplifting education for the bright future of their children”, said Nazish, a teacher of Practicing girls high school township Lahore, adding that if the parents trusted the government schools it might be the children get education in better educational institutions later. The irony is that the parents don’t take any interest in enrolling children in government schools.
She pointed out that neither the people of the area believe in government-run schools nor they afford private schools resulting that they finally searching for a seminaries to get their children enrolled. On the other hand, traditional seminaries are popping up in the locality where thousands of the underprivileged students are forced to get enrolled.