THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A section of higher secondary teachers has decided to boycott the cluster meeting scheduled to be held on Friday as a mark of protest against the anomalies in its conduct.
Four major teachers associations - AHSTA, KHSTU, HSSTA and KAHSTA - have called for the boycott of the cluster meeting being held in the midst of the ongoing higher secondary examination.
The higher secondary teachers have demanded that the government’s decision to conduct a joint cluster with high school teachers be revoked. According to them, Education Minister C Raveendranath has gone back on his assurance that such meetings would be conducted at the school level.
“The government says the cluster meeting is being held to impart training to teachers ahead of the rollout of the hi-tech classroom project. Already, higher secondary teachers have received training for it. We suspect that unnecessary cluster meetings are being held to claim funds under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan),” AHSTA state general secretary S Manoj said. Meanwhile, Education Minister C Raveendranath has urged teachers to make the cluster meetings a grand success.
“The meeting is being convened to discuss various programmes to be conducted in the run-up to the implementation of the hi-tech classroom project. Various steps that need to be adopted to convert schools into centres of excellence will be discussed at the meeting,” the minister said.
A section of teachers, affiliated to the Left, has decided to attend the cluster meetings.