Yet another disappointing show by Urdu schools

Pankhoori Sinha / TNN / Jun 27, 2005, 00:27 IST

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NEW DELHI: Urdu schools are still coming to terms with yet another dismal showing in the Board examinations.

Yet another disappointing show by Urdu schools

NEW DELHI: Even as class XII results pointed to higher pass percentages and students are now scrambling for Delhi University (DU) admissions, Urdu schools are still coming to terms with yet another dismal showing in the Board examinations.
Except for a few prominent Urdu schools like Anglo-Arabic and Qaumi School, a majority of others have had a pass percentage well below 50% in class XIIth this year.Class Xth results are even worse with the pass percentage this year plummeting in some cases to as low as a shocking 7 percent.
For Urdu academicians though, the results are anything but surprising. Urdu schools have regularly logged in poor results in class Xth and XIIth. While the pass percentage has been extremely poor in class Xth over the years, it’s only marginally better in class XIIth.
Contrary to other schools where girls outperform boys every year, urdu medium girl schools fare even more badly, their pass percentages falling below the average. Overall, when compared to overall Delhi result, results of the Urdu schools stand out like sore thumbs.

Most of the schools Times of India spoke to, attributed poor results to the lack of books in Urdu. Says Furqan, economics teacher in Quami School, "The biggest problem is that of textbooks which are never available. We get caught between NCERT and the Urdu Academy, both blaming the other for not printing books for these classes."
Despite all infrastructural problems, teachers make an effort to complete the syllabus, claims Furqan. "We try and translate notes to students. However, in case of a certain method or concept, it becomes very difficult to get across to them."
However, Urdu scholars brush aside such claims as being an eyewash.
Says Firoz Bakht Ahmed, a writer and teacher who is also a member of Friends of Education: "In most cases, these teachers aren’t really interested. They don’t take their job of imparting meaningful education to children, seriously."

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