By: Choirul Fuadi)*
CIDISS – In the new teaching year, the school will accept new student, both state and private school. The parents will look for the best school for their children. But, the number of school increase rapidly in the year.
Then, the school is rivalry to get new student. Such happen in the regency of Kotawaringin Timur, most of parent chose state school than private school. As the result, private school has decrease of the number of student. Moreover, there is a private school that only has a new student.
Such in Radar Sampit, SMP (Junior High School) Miftahuttaqwa in Muchan Ali Street, Gg Attarbiyah Sampit, Kotawaringin Timur regency, Central Kalimantan Province only got one new student.
There are a big room, but there only a student and a teacher. The condition was not seems like teaching learning process in the school. Normally, in the room is full or a lot of students.
Even there has only a student, but it doesn’t influence the process of teaching learning. The teacher teaches normally.
A staff of the school said that the decrease number of new student has been happened for some years before. Moreover, when state school add the number of class, it is very affect to private school in add new student. “For now, we only got a new student in the teaching learning process in the class,” said him.
The amount of student in SMP Miftahuttaqwa reported only has 13 students, by detail a student in class of VII, 3 students in class of VIII, and 9 students in the class of IX.
The same condition is also in MTs (Islamic Junior High School) Nurul Ummah, in Suprapto Street, Sampit, Kotawaringin Timur regency, but the school has better condition. The school got 10 new students. Meanwhile the facilities of the school are good and have accreditation B for standard quality good.
Siti Khadijah, vice head of MTs Nurul Ummah said that her party stay focus on increase the school quality and promote to people. She hopes the parent not only chooses state school but also private school. She assumed that a lot of private school has good quality as good as state school.