Most schools in the city are busy preparing their students for academic year’s first set of unit tests. While students are grappling with notes and assignments, school managements have worries of their own. They are dealing with the possibility of having to give up on teachers in their staff who hold a Diploma in Education (D Ed).

The state education department has given these teachers three years within which to pass the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), which most have not cleared. This has left schools in a fix, with the government already having stopped paying the salaries for these teachers.