KHYBER
In the absence of high school, students of government girls middle school no.2, Kam-Shelman Haji Speen Kalley consecutively study in eight grade.
Kam-Shelman is a remote area of subdivision Landi Kotal and its population is approximately ten thousand people.
Eighteen girls were studied in the middle section while 148 female students enrolled in the primary section of the institutions.
The girl students lamented that for the last three years, they were still studying in the eight class as locally high school for girls was not available and because of poverty they could bear expenses to travel to girl high secondary school, Landi Kotal.
I want to get a higher education, but a shortage of opportunities locally restrain her to materialize her dream, an orphan student of eight grade added.
Haji Agha Jan, an elder of Kam-Shelman said that dozens of girls disconnected their studies when they passed their eight grade exam.
Like girls of other parts of the country, the female students of the area were talented but the lack of facility of higher studies barred them from it,he added.
According to the students out of two female teachers, only one attended her duty and two teaching staff members performed their duties in the middle part of the institution.
Because of a shortage of teachers, they could not attend so far a single period of science subjects, the affected girls remarked.
In the primary section all the students were sitting on the bare floor and even a mate was unavailable for them, they added and said under the parent – teacher council fund construction of the room was left incomplete and the money was embezzled.
When the district education officer (female) Samina Ghani was contacted on the matter she said that the subordinate staff would be contacted to seek the prevailing situation of the school.
