<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">At least 25 schools issued notices for violating department norms<br></h1><div class=""><div class=""><br></div>
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<h2>Over 20 schools have allegedly violated Language Policy </h2>
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<p class="">At least 25 schools in the city have been served show-cause notices for violating norms of the Education Department. </p><p class="">Of
this, more than 20 schools have been issued the notices for violating
the State government’s 1994 Language Policy and running classes one to
five in English medium, although they have obtained permission to run
classes in Kannada medium. </p><p class="">Block Education Officers
(BEO) were asked to crack down on schools violating the department’s
norms by November 29, and three-member committees were even formed. </p><p class="">The
schools have responded to the show-cause notices issued earlier this
month by BEOs by simply attaching the Supreme Court judgments. </p><p class="">A helpless BEO said: “We do not know what our next course of action should be.”</p><p class="">Objecting
to the crackdown, private school managements said the government cannot
act against schools for Language Policy violation as the Supreme Court
judgment quashed the government’s policy of making the mother tongue or
regional language the compulsory medium of instruction in lower primary
classes. The review petition filed by the government was also quashed
subsequently. The government has now moved for a curative petition. </p><p class="">After
the review petition was quashed, associations had urged the department
to register schools as English medium. A meeting scheduled to discuss
the Language Policy on November 13 did not take place and has been
postponed to December.</p><p class=""> D. Shashi Kumar, general
secretary, Associated Managements of English Medium School in Karnataka,
said: “The government should resolve the policy issue as per Supreme
Court’s directives.” </p><p class="">In fact, last week, the High
Court pulled up the government and questioned its notification that
permitted only Kannada-medium private schools for classes one to five
for the 2015–16 academic year. </p><p class="">However, a department
official said that only some schools could take shelter under the
Language Policy judgment as they had made submissions to the courts that
they were running classes in English medium even though they had
obtained permission for Kannada medium. </p><p class="">“If schools
show us documents that prove that they have applied seeking permission
for English medium, we will ask our officers not to take action. But if
they have made no such effort, they are cheating the department and we
will be forced initiate action against them.”</p><p class=""><br></p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/at-least-25-schools-issued-notices-for-violating-department-norms/article6627588.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/at-least-25-schools-issued-notices-for-violating-department-norms/article6627588.ece</a><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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