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English? "No. Communicative English has been an issue, as they have had no exposure to English earlier and no encouraging atmosphere back home. Besides, there is lack of positive attitude to even learn," says Jyoti Hegde, who teaches English. <br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px">The scene at the government high school in Goripalya, off Mysore Road is no different. Almost all children go for private tuitions to ensure they do not fail in the coming SSLC examinations. "When we decided to make English speaking mandatory in class, the children did not even turn up which is worse. It is better they are here than working as labour elsewhere,'' said a teacher. </div><div class="" style="color:rgb(63,63,63);font-family:georgia;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><br></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#3f3f3f" face="georgia"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:20px"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Skewed-policy-ensures-English-is-alien-to-kids/articleshow/46159734.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Skewed-policy-ensures-English-is-alien-to-kids/articleshow/46159734.cms</a></span></font><br></div></div></div></div></span><div><br></div>-- <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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