SSC students assigned to Acharya Narendradev Vidyamandir grumble about backaches due to broken desks and benches
SSC students assigned to Acharya Narendradev Vidyamandir grumble about backaches due to broken desks and benches
AROUND 3.55 lakh students will be appearing for the SSC exams across the city this year, which started on March 1. However, for a few select students, exam stress is not the only worry they will have to face, as they will have to endure wobbly, broken benches making the already stressful time, even more so.
Apart from the uncomfortable benches and desks, students and their parents are complaining about the hygiene level of the school too
Students who had their centre at Acharya Narendradev Vidyamandir, Borivli (West), are cursing their fate as they are made to sit on uncomfortable benches.
Said Leena Kamat (name changed), a parent, "My daughter panicked when she received some pictures of the school from her friend. She is quite tall and has to endure backaches while writing her exams. The state board should start conducting exams in their own schools like the other boards do."
Echoing the same sentiments, another studentu00a0 assigned to Vidyamandiru00a0 centre said, "I immediately asked the supervisor to change my bench when I saw it. The bench had a depression and I thought it would be impossible for me to write my paper on it. They immediately made arrangements for another bench."
Describing the discomfort owing to the benches, a student said, "The benches are not separate. They are joined and hence we cannot separate our seats from the bench to make ourselves comfortable. The height of the desks is also too low, which causes utmost discomfort."
However, it is not just the uncomfortable benches and desks that have made parents and students grumble. Allegedly, the school is not clean and parents also grumbled about the hygiene levels of the school.
Renuka Sampat (name changed),a parent said, "A day before the exam when I came to check the school, the odour emanating from the restroom on the ground floor wafted outside the school gate."
1st person account
Our reporter entered one of the classrooms to put herself in the students' shoes. This is what she had to say.
"The benches and desks were very uncomfortable and I could not sit straight and had to tilt either to my right or left side. Some desks were also broken from the middle and had holes in them," she
said.
Back to back
Emphasising the importance of correct posture, Dr Pradeep Bhosle, HOD of the orthopaedic department of KEM Hospital, said, "Students should be relaxed and maintain a correct posture while sitting. Their rears should touch the desk and they should practice this position for at least two hours."
The Other Side
"No student has complained to us about the benches or desks.
One student requested to change his bench and we immediately did so. We will provide students with the benches and desks that they want."u00a0
RD Yadav, Principal, Acharya Narendradev Vidyamandir
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