Lack of Mamuju 327 elementary school teachers

Mamuju: Mamuju regency, West Sulawesi is still short about 327 people at the school of teachers to primary schools (primary).

Head of Education Kindergarten and Elementary School Education Office and the National Youth Sports (Diknaspora) Mamuju regency, Salman Ali, Friday (2 / 1) says, the number of teachers at the primary, which spread in 15 subdistricts in Mamuju around 1,676 people.

The number of teachers, he said, is not comparable with the total number of students as much as 56,676 people scattered in 395 units at the primary school in this region.

According to him, ideally every school should have ten teachers for each school, and each teacher serves about 28 students per class.

Meanwhile, at this time, he said, every teacher in each school only about five teachers and each teacher serves about 35 people per class, even one school principals only handled one person and teacher.

Therefore, he said, to anticipate the lack of teachers should be done about the addition of the 327 teachers who, in addition to the equity placement of teachers in each school.

For, according to him, for there is little school students, but many teachers, particularly school districts in the capital or the capital district, while schools in rural or remote areas still lack teachers.

"The government should overcome the problem of shortage of teachers because this is one of the factors that secured the improvement of the quality of education in this region," he said. (Ant/OL-03)