Friday, September 22, 2006

kannada-vs-english-medium-schools

Government's move to close down schools teaching english will eliminate kannada totally. the reason is there
will be no parents who will send their kids to schools which have kannada as a medium of instruction.Even a
housemaid wants her kids to go to a english medium school.The government need not even use police force to
close down schools. The schools will automatically shutdown since no parents will admit their children in such
schools.Then where will government implement its rule. Karnataka will be left with only ICSE and CBSE schools
without kannada. We parents want our children to learn kannada.Let kannada be the compulsary first language. Let kids
learn maths, environmental science and english also. we parents have admitted our children in such
schools,because we want our children to learn kannada.If government brings such rules, we who are kannadigas
will be forced to admit our childern in ICSE or CBSE board schools. Then what will happen to kannada, If all parents decide to change to ICSE or CBSE. when we were young, we had only state syllabus schools. We had not heard of ICSE at all. But when it
comes to admitting our kids , we find there are no state syllabus schools at all. we had to literally hunt for
a school that taught kannada to admit our children. But what happened now is that the government is shutting
these scools. It would have been a easy optin to admit our kids to ICSE schools. The reason for so many ICSE and CBSE schools in bangalore is because of the government rule. Schools
which started after 1994 who wanted english as medium of instruction, could not do this with the state
governments conditions. So they opted for ICSE. Most of the schools in bangalore have ICSE for calss 1 to 7.
then they give students an option to choose State or ICSE. why ? because of the state government rules. The
government is responsible for this . Now if the government shuts schools ,then kannada wont remain. It is best to teach kannada as a
compulsory subject with english as the medium of instruction . Because parents want it like that.