CBSE to serve notices on 472 schools in Patna region

PATNA: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is to issue show-cause notices to 472 affiliated schools in Patna region over the poor results of students in Class X and XII board exams as well as flouting the norms of affiliation bylaws.
“The CBSE has categorized the schools in A, B, C and D grades according to their performance in Class X and XII board exams,” a CBSE official from Delhi said.Schools with overall pass percentage above 70% are in Grade A while those having scored between 60% and 70% are put in Grade B. Schools with 40 to 60% success rate are in Grade C and below 40% overall pass percentage are in Grade D. The board will send show-cause notices to schools under Grade C and D.
Of the total 472 schools to receive show-cause notices, Bihar alone has 300 schools. Altogether 213 schools failed to score above 40% result. There are total 888 schools in state affiliated to CBSE. Patna region includes Bihar and Jharkhand.
CBSE city coordinator and principal of Baldwin Academy, Rajiv Ranjan Sinha, told this newspaper that the results of Patna region were worst. “The board has taken the right decision for penalizing such schools with poor results. Most of these schools failed to fulfil the affiliation bylaws, including disproportionate student:teacher ratio and lack of infrastructure among other issues,” he said.
As per the CBSE affiliation bylaws, schools are permitted to enrol 40 students per class. This rule was made to accommodate the student-teacher ratio of 40:1 for all classes. “However, many schools did not follow this,” Sinha added.
Abha Chaudhary, senior teacher of Notre Dame Academy, said the degrading result was a serious concern for the board and parents will now be able to categorize schools on their performance. “Several schools are running as non-attending schools, where students need not attend classes. Parents thought that after Class X, kids do not need to go to school. Rather they encourage their kids to take coaching classes to prepare for engineering and medical,” she said.
She added: “There is only 0.1% chance that the flying candidates (who went to non-attending schools) succeed in both board exams as well as in competitive exams.”