SEE! HOW SINHALA SLFP(1994-2009) RUINED EDUCATION BY POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS! STUDENTS CONFUSED BY WRONGS OF Q-PAPERS! QUALIFIED TEACHERS SIDELINED.!!!

The issue of question papers

By Kelum Bandara

More spelling, factual and printing errors surfaced in school term test question papers yesterday from various parts of the country inconveniencing students and teachers.In Balangoda, in the Grade Five paper, a letter had been left out of a word – giving it an obscene meaning.

The Educational Professionals’ Association Secretary Wasantha Dharmasiri told Daily Mirror yesterday that he had had come across many errors in the Grade Four Mathematics question paper distributed among students in the Ratnapura Educational Zone. Mr. Dharmasiri said that there were questions that neither students nor teachers could understand.

“These are students planning to sit for the Grade Five Scholarship Examination soon. They are all confused today. In another school, the answer papers had also been distributed along with the question papers,” he said.

He said a tender racket had also been reported with regard to the printing of question papers in the Ratnapura zone.

“One printer had agreed to print an A4 size page of questions for 62 cents, but the tender had been awarded to another printer at Rs.1.32 for such a page. There seems to be a racket here. Someone might have tried to pocket some money. I informed the provincial authorities of this,” he said.

The Ceylon Teachers Services’ Union’s Organising Secretary Dhammika Alahapperuma said that the term tests had not been conducted successfully, even yesterday, in the North Central province. Mr. Alahapperuma said that the political appointments in the education sector had caused this crisis.

“The SLFP-led governments which ruled this country since 1994 should be held responsible for this utter rot. There is no use of the minister vowing to take action now. The education sector is filled with unqualified political henchmen. They know only to put up stages for the ruling party politicians and canvas votes for them,” he said.

He said that there were enough qualified persons in the education sector, but they had been sidelined due to political reasons.

Meanwhile, the Union’s General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe said that some subject directors and in-service advisors had threatened teachers in the Homagama area for revealing these mistakes to the media.

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