Kannada medium students suffer without textbooks

[Francis Hult]

The Hindu

 

Kannada medium students suffer without textbooks

 

Plus-One and Plus-Two students of Government Higher Secondary School in Panakahalli in Thalavady Union face a peculiar problem: they study without text books.

 

Theirs is a Kannada medium school, meaning the students study physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology in Kannada. Their first language is Kannada and second language English.

 

In the absence of textbooks, the students have no choice but to depend upon the notes the teacher gives.

 

Full story:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/04/stories/2008080457840100.htm

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