Critical Assessment of RTE Act in India and It’s Comparative Statistical Assessment With Special Reference To PTR, Corporal Punishment, and Work-Load Parameters

Abstract

Teachers play a vital role in educational development and educational reforms in the country. Therefore, for making the educational policies, programs, and system to be successful, the school's work culture and subsequently teachers' job satisfaction is of cardinal importance.  Thus, the most pertinent question that comes forward is whether teachers are satisfied with their profession.  Whether their service conditions and policies are adequately providing them with professional satisfaction? 

To attain educational goals and to enhance the educational outcome, the dire need is to analyze the overall job satisfaction of teachers, keeping socio-economic, psychological, and administrative aspects of the problem in view. This study attempted to make a comparative study of the job satisfaction of government schools' teachers with that of private schools’ teachers to ascertain their level of job satisfaction with special reference to PTR, Corporal Punishment, and workload provisions of the RTE Act. This study is an attempt to make a comparative study of satisfaction of schools keeping socioeconomic, psychological, and administrative aspects of the problem. In this study issues related to the academic responsibilities of teachers and other issues related to the teaching-learning process; development of school curriculum; working hours of the teachers; prohibition of deployment of teachers for non-educational work; Classroom- Teacher Ratio in schools, Pupil-Teacher Ratio have been studied in-depth to make a comparative assessment of Job satisfaction of Teachers in public and private schools in India. The school teachers are normally overburdened with non-teaching or administrative duties, consuming a lot of their time. Preparation of several reports and writing down every detail of expenditure resulted in a waste of teaching time.  Besides this, teachers in government schools have to do other activities like census data collection, disaster relief duties, or duties related to elections. Teachers are mentally and physically exhausted/drained leaving little time for their personal or family obligations. The teachers' staff room with certain basic amenities for providing brief relaxation during hectic teaching schedules, an interaction opportunity with colleagues, and also to energize them as well as to infuse in their confidence, mutual support, and motivation.