HYDERABAD: Citing that many students do not have access to a smartphone to send their photograph while attending digital classes to mark attendance, government teachers said the state should come up with an alternative way to record attendance.
They said that with parents leaving for work, students are not having access to send their attendance to their respective class teachers.
“Many are attending digital classes but they are unable to send their photograph while watching classes as they don’t have a smartphone. The same was conveyed to their teachers when they enquired why a student is not attending classes,” said M Ravinder, a mathematics teacher at a city government school and president of the Telangana Progressive Teachers Federation.
Teachers said it would be better if an alternate procedure like asking students to complete an assignment or worksheet, is considered for attendance every day. They said that with many not sending attendance, data sent to the education department is not accurate as teachers are forced to put some figures and share them by the end of the day. As per the figures released by education department, 75.6% students attended classes on Friday.
