Honouring PT teachers Even though they are promoting excellence in Education ,their contributions are often taken for granted and are confined to unsung heroes . They desists the label of connotations of PITTY the nomenclature of being abhorrent. The alternative of dignity is P.Ed.Sports Directors."Sports Academics are two sides of the coin of Education".They regret of not receiving the recognition,glorification and appreciation reserved for subject teachers. Often there is no separate room for sports or a cupboard to display the trophies. There is no compensation for working with teams in the evenings or coming early before schools starts.Their hours of work are enlarged beyond the official 6 hours a day.During vacations conduct training camps and thus fruitful keep students engaged in pursuit of Sports .Academic performances are publicised , displaying roll of honour , mention in prospectus and publicizing at assemblies and school functions. The barometer of position ,status ,ranking of Institution is invariably lionised by academic results.There are hardly any conceivable awards instituted for sports and rightly so for sports achievers. Parents too encourage academics and are not sympathetic towards sports activities whether outdoor or indoor.Fortunately alternate year of school function of Parent' s day is designated as Sports Day. It was disappointing that even though founded awards for Secondary teachers and Fr Antimo awards not once PEd. Teacher though eligible was their choice and preference.Pre Primary teacher was a favourite nomination, which is now deleted for Fr Antimo award The first year where the suggestion to consider PEd. teachers was obliged and first time PEd were felicitated. It is difficult to get donors for founded awards for Hindi and PEd teachers in the same breadth. I realised the indifference and glaring omission , when Trust annually honours HM,Secondary , Primary ,Pre Primary and secondary Mathematics teachers.The Trust certificate, special envelope now offered to 30 of them APPRECIATION to.P.Ed of schools, recipients of Trust awards in the memory of Sir Sandy past PEd. teacher at Mount Mary's Chinchinim .Regret to say that even recommendations with name, mobile, poto and address appears to be a task to respond wholeheartedly. A colleague of mine, no connection with the Village unexpectedly sent a donation of Rs10 K to use it as I like.I embarked with her consent to institute a long desired permanet award in this category. Request is mailed to colleagues ,past students family members and encouraging response is hopefully awaited .Come what may it will be pursued with all vigour, however long it may take to materialise. .Chinchinim Village has PEd directors of repute .like late Sonny , late Oscar , Francis, David that I can recall.Sony and Oscar will receive a special mention, even though families have already instituted awards in their memories of their own accord.Trust special sports publication highlights sports field and contributors in various capacities .As the HM in 9 DSE schools I endeavoured to treat Sports Day on same footing.Provided infrastructure needed and gave prominence to sports awardees in publicity. Considerations by way of early leaving for time spent in evenings and other small but significant gestures of concerns and appreciation Presently sports is on ascendancy at all India level in various fields and international and National level. Govt too extends financial assistance reservations in jobs , development of infrastructure ,providing specialized coaching both at home and abroad, opening of sports academies etc The emoluments are also now very attractive to consider sports as a career. The PCTrust besides has instituted cash incentives with citations in number of disciplines Soccer,best boy,best girl ,hockey, volleyball,basketball, Athletics ,Chess Music and Violin to each of 3 schools in Chinchinim Chinchinim is called a granary of football and all the village clubs exclusively promote soccer .Soccer players of Chinchinim village have inscribed their names on the soccer map of Goa ,India and abroad .A well planned infrastructure of CRCC is waiting to be put to full potential Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
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