The general perception is that government schools are not good, and if possible even the poor want to send their children to private schools. This mind set prevails all over the country, and if one talks of Uttar Pradesh one can not think of a good government school. However, one government primary school in village Tiwati, in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, will change this general perception.
Wearing a red-checked shirt and a pair of brown trousers, Mohammad Sufiyan, a Class II student at this government primary school, reads aloud a poem in English to the class of 40. Sufiyan, like many others in his class, is proficient in English and knows his current affairs well. The only school in the district to have a biometric attendance system for teachers and staff in place, the Titawi primary school is the talk of the town, even among most coveted private schools in nearby cities.
And all this has been achieved by the initiative of the school principal.
Read more of this in a report published in Times of India....
