<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Order will help set the record straight for private schools</h1>
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<p class="">Several private schools that registered as
Kannada-medium schools, but used English as their medium of instruction
due to State government’s 1994 language policy which enforced mother
tongue or Kannada, hope the High Court order will help set the record
straight.</p><p class="">Sources in the department also said the
government was in the process of formulating the new language policy,
which aims to make Kannada a compulsory subject in all private schools.
But, they added that the first challenge was to identify the number of
English-medium schools that on paper had Kannada medium permission. Data
compiled by the department in this regard is ambiguous.</p><p class="">For
instance, the District Information System for Education (DISE)
2014-2016 data states that there are only 453 English medium lower
primary schools (classes 1 to 5) and 6,350 English medium higher primary
schools (classes 1 to 7). This has been strongly contested by experts.</p><p class="">D.
Shashi Kumar, general secretary of the Associated Managements of
Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka, says majority of 12,734
private schools are teaching in English medium, but the department’s
data suggests that only nearly 6,800 schools are English medium. It is
hard to believe that the remaining 6,000 odd schools run in Kannada
medium.</p><p class="">He added that the private school associations
would undertake a poster campaign to spread awareness about the
constitutional rights of the parents and students. He alleged that the
State’s language policy made it more difficult for poor and middle-class
parents, who aspire for an English medium education for their wards.</p><p class="">Mohammad
Mohsin, Commissioner for Public Instruction, said the department will
now look into the latest order along with various court orders for
deciding the norms and conditions before granting permission to new
English medium schools</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/order-will-help-set-the-record-straight-for-private-schools/article6943302.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/order-will-help-set-the-record-straight-for-private-schools/article6943302.ece</a><br></p><p class=""><br></p><br clear="all"><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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