When this school was founded in 1953, the ambition was simple and enormous at once: that a child from a farming family in Ghoksadanga should not have to leave the village to become educated. That ambition has been met many thousands of times over. The question now is what the next seventy years should look like.
The world our students will enter is not the one their parents entered. A young person leaving Class XII today will be asked to use a computer, to read and write confidently in more than one language, and to compete for college seats and jobs with students from cities far larger than ours. Our responsibility is to make sure that a rural address is never the reason a capable child falls behind.
That is where we are directing our effort: strengthening our science laboratories and smart classrooms so that practical learning is genuinely practical; making our computer and ICT facilities something every student uses rather than a few; keeping our girls in school through Class XII, right up to the board examination; and giving first-generation learners the extra academic support that turns enrolment into achievement.
We ask parents and well-wishers to remain close to the school. Come to the meetings, ask about your child’s progress, and tell us where we can do better. An institution founded by a farmer for his neighbours’ children belongs, quite properly, to the community it serves.
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Headmaster, Ghoksadanga Pramanik High School (H.S.)
