Bareilly: Taking serious note of students’ absenteeism in UP Board-affiliated schools, district inspector of schools (DIOS) Achal Mishra has directed principals of all 425 government-aided, semi-aided and private schools to serve notice to parents if a child is found absent for 10 consecutive days.The direction came at a recent meeting of DIOS with principals of all UP board-affiliated schools in the district.Mishra said, “As we have been receiving complaints about students skipping classes regularly, principals have been directed to keep a tab on those students who remain absent for more than three days without informing school. Teachers should contact other children living in the vicinity of the absentee student to know the reason behind his being absent from classes.”However, if a student remains absent for 10 consecutive days and his family does not inform the reason to the school, the management will send a notice to his parents informing them that their child’s name has been removed from the attendance register.“The notice will ask parents to immediately report to the school, and such students will be allowed to attend classes after their parents submit affidavits declaring that their children will be regular to the school. When I make random inspection of schools, I will check attendance registers and the number of notices served to parents,” said Mishra.The move is aimed at ensuring that students do not skip school to attend classes elsewhere.According to officials, as per rule, a student should have at least 75% attendance in an academic session to appear in the final exams, but a large number of students attend coaching classes during school hours to prepare for competitive exams.“We have also learnt that when a student is dissatisfied with the quality of teaching at his school, he starts attending classes at an unrecognised school. However, when the school administration is tough on them for proper attendance, unrecognised schools will fail to draw them,” said Mishra.TOI earlier reported that the secondary education department had sent a report to the district magistrate after it received complaints about 64 unrecognised schools in the district. Officials said they had received complaints that few schools with recognition of running classes till V or VIII were running classes up to XII.

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