School teachers are in for a rude shock as they on Wednesday received orders from the state Election Commission to attend day-long workshops on Thursday and Monday for their election duty.

Teachers were already irked with the election duty as many of them have been assigned the job of both the examiner and the moderator. "April is the time when all schools teachers are busy with assessment work, not only for board examination but also for regular school examination. These examinations end by April 15 and we have to declare results by May," said a teacher of a Mulund School.