In a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh, an English teacher failed to read even a few lines from a textbook during a surprise inspection at a government school in Unnao district.
A video of the incident, wherein the district magistrate of Unnao district, Devendra Kumar Pandey can be seen asking a teacher to read out a few lines in English from a textbook, has gone viral.
As the teacher was unable to read, the district magistrate ordered her suspension.
“She should be suspended immediately. She is a teacher and can’t even read, she can’t read English,” says Devendra Kumar Pandey, district magistrate.
The teacher tries to clarify but was interrupted by the DM.
“So what, you are a graduate. I didn’t ask you the meaning, anything. I didn’t ask you to translate this, I just asked you to read,” he added.
Here is the video:
#WATCH Unnao: An English teacher fails to read a few lines of the language from a book after the District Magistrate, Devendra Kumar Pandey, asked her to read during an inspection of a govt school in Sikandarpur Sarausi. (28.11) pic.twitter.com/wAVZSKCIMS
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) November 30, 2019
District Magistrate Devendra Kumar Pandey had visited the school, located in the Sikandarpur Sarausi area of Unnao district, on Thursday, November 28 as part of a surprise inspection.
He first asked the students to read something from their English book and when the student started fumbling, he asked the teacher to read a few lines. The teacher also failed to read straight sentences in English. The District Magistrate then directed the Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) to suspend her immediately.
Here is how Twitterati reacted to this incident:
#1
It's all because of reservation and corruption. We have got independence from British but we became slaves of corruption and dirty politics.
— TANUJ SINGHAL (@tanujsinghal85) November 30, 2019
#2
This is what happens when you have to fill government job quota with SC/ST/OBC candidates having less marks… and this is everywhere… even in Aviation and medicine…. where lives are at stake…
— Velocerere (@velocerere) November 30, 2019
#3
There is nothing new in it.
Last year under a project went to 8 Primary school in Bahraich dist.
At few of them Hindi teachers did not know how to write "aashirvad" in hindi.
🙄
Kahi kahi to halat aur bhi kharab. But who cares.— neelima (@neelimalko) November 30, 2019
#4
Absolute rot.
Imagine the plight of students in such schools.We talk of demographic dividend.
— Rinku (@rinku_views) November 30, 2019
#5
That's why our education system is so poor and private schools are changing high fees.
Because of these kind of teachers there is unemployment in country.— Sudeep Sagar Uppal 🇮🇳 (@ssagaruppal) November 30, 2019
#6
When pass marks for becoming teacher is 30/100. Why such surprise?
— रोशन के (@raushank265) November 30, 2019
#7
1). The hiring manager (the person who hired the teacher) should be fired first.
2). This is a complete disgrace to the teacher; she may have been unqualified but you really can't humiliate her and fire her in front of her students! What example are we setting here?— Samuel Isaac (@samsweb) November 30, 2019
#8
Who is to be blamed here? Certainly not the teacher, who appointed her? Who trained her? Who passed her through teacher training courses? How old is our teacher training process?
— Rahul Jain (@Rahuljain094) November 30, 2019
#9
Wow…. Engineer are applying for sanitation jobs and uneducated people are the teachers in schools..
— Khalid Faizan (@khalid_faizan) November 30, 2019
#10
Absolute disgraceful conduct by the DM there. There was no need to make this public. Why is English so important to start with. @myogiadityanath
— Raghavendra S (@ragh_twt) November 30, 2019