However, the agitating teachers affiliated to Institutional Schools Teachers’ Union (ISTU) have agreed to allow school management to take entrance test for class one students scheduled for Saturday.
The school management had announced indefinite closure of the school starting Tuesday after the teachers’ union close to the ruling Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) staged a 15-minute sit-in in front of the school principal’s office last Monday to press various demands pertaining to perks and benefits.
Hom Kumar Thapa, central president of the ISTU said agitating teachers have agreed to cooperate with the school management for the entrance examination.
Thapa said that some guardians have taken initiatives to help end the standoff. There has been an informal understanding to form a talks team comprising three members each from the school management, agitating teachers and guardians to discuss of the teachers two days ago.
“We will soon sit for talks if the school management expressed willingness to discuss our demands,” he added.
Among other things, the St Xavier’s School chapter of ISTU has asked the school management to adjust their allowances, ensure representation of teachers in the school management committee and increase the amount of gratuity to teachers in proportion to the amount collected from each new student.
The school enrolls 130 new students each academic session and collects Rs 2,000 from each student for teachers’ gratuity fund.
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