Podor, Feb 23 (APS) – Elhadji Baba Ndiongue high school in Podor (north) is facing an overstaffing of its students, a situation made even more complicated by the shortage of teachers, said its censor, Demba Assane Sy.
“The numbers vary between 95 and 100 students, as in the second class L2C,” he said in an interview with APS. The school is also faced with “a huge shortage of teachers”, with only 25 teachers, including 3 math teachers and 3 French teachers”, lamented the censor, specifying that the need for teaching staff is estimated at seven teachers.
“We need a philosophy teacher, two mathematics teachers, two French teachers, a Spanish teacher and a home economics teacher,” he listed.
This situation which ”is not new, has imposed a reduction in the hourly quantum” from five hours per week to four hours per week”, he revealed, noting that ”all the authorities are informed’ ‘.
This perhaps explaining that, the Elhadji Baba Ndiongue high school obtained mediocre results last year. His success rate in the baccalaureate was indeed established at “thirty-one percent, whereas usually he performed more than 60% percent”, lamented Demba Assane Sy.
To reposition the LEBND in “the leading pack” of the most successful high schools in the Saint-Louis region, he believes that it is urgent to build four classrooms and distribute the staff reasonably, not taking into account the need to assign at least seven new teachers to the school.
According to him, other measures and not the least must follow. These are “in particular the purchase of a bus to transport the students” who come from the peripheral villages of Guia, Wouro Mahdiyou, Diatar and Ngawlé and from the outlying districts of the city of Podor, such as Thioffy and Souima, or the opening of a school canteen.
In the digital age, the computer room offered by the Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory Authority (ARTP) and its 20 computers, “is no longer able to provide lessons because of the plethora of learners” ‘, revealed Demba Assane Sy.
The school, relocated to its current site located at the southern entrance to the town of Podor in 2006, includes an administrative block and has 16 classes for 1,226 students and 25 teachers. It is characterized above all by the virtual non-existence of shade trees.