Government teaching jobs have honestly become a joke. Instead of being a way to spread literacy and actually educate kids, they’ve turned into just another "sarkaari naukri" that attracts all sorts of unmotivated people. My mom is a government teacher, and I’ve seen firsthand how things work. While the older generation of teachers genuinely cared about their students and went the extra mile to teach, a lot of the recent recruits are just in it for job security. They don’t see it as a serious responsibility—just a paycheck.
One of the biggest scams is attendance. Some teachers literally just show up, mark their presence, and then disappear. A simple fix? Biometric attendance for every class, just like we had in engineering college, and the data should be uploaded in real-time for officials to see. They can take attendance of both teachers and students. We did an UPI, I don't believe this is hard.
Then there’s the joke that is teacher training. These days, any random person can get a B.Ed degree from some shady college and worm their way into the system. There’s no real training, no focus on how to actually teach—just rote learning and passing some exam. What we really need are proper National Universities for Teaching like those seen in Developed Countries, where admissions are based on standardized tests that corrupt state governments can’t manipulate. These universities should actually train teachers properly and award M.Ed degrees, which should be the bare minimum for high school teaching. Until we fix these issues, government teaching jobs will keep being a magnet for sankari job rent-seekers.
