APTA protests against cluster school system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The All Primary Teachers' Association (APTA) on Thursday protested against the cluster school system for monitoring local government primary schools and demanded creation of a separate directorate for primary education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The teachers from across the KP participated in the protest demonstration held on the front of Peshawar Press Club. They were holding banners inscribed with the slogans of 'reject cluster school system'.
APTA Provencal President Malik Khalid while talking to the journalists said the government should avoid experimenting with the education sector and instead it should focus on ensuring provision of quality education to the people. He said the system would adversely affect the performance of government high and higher secondary schools.
He said the heads of those schools would not be able to efficiently supervise teachers, to monitor teaching activities and handle other administrative and financial matters on their respective premises in case they were engaged to supervise primary schools. The APTA President demanded for a separate directorate of primary education at the provincial level should be set up. He further said the proposed directorate would promote quality primary education in the province. He also demanded of the government to immediately hire new teachers for over 14,000 vacant posts across KP and regularise all the ad hoc base teachers.