[lg policy] India: South Delhi school takes back language circular

[Harold Schiffman]

South Delhi school takes back language circularTNN | Mar 9, 2017, 04.03 AM
IST
[image: Representative image.]Representative image.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Public School
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-Public-School>, Mathura
Road, has withdrawn a circular it had sent to parents of Class VI students,
asking them to make appropriate curricular changes considering the Central
Board of Secondary Education
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Board-of-Secondary-Education>'s
"new language policy
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/new-language-policy>".

After the circular was issued on March 2, parents pointed out to the board
that the school was planning to implement a policy that was still at the
proposal stage with the ministry of human resource development.

Acting on the complaints, a CBSE team
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBSE-team> was sent to the
school, following which a new circular was issued on March 8 withdrawing
the earlier document.

A senior CBSE official said, "When the issue was brought to the notice of
the board a team visited the school and as the school was intimated that
CBSE had not issued any notification on language policy as mentioned in its
circular dated March 2, the school withdrew the circular unconditionally
and regretted it. The school will follow the existing scheme of CBSE."

Under the plan in question, a student will have to take up three Indian
languages listed in schedule VIII of the Constitution, one of which can be
English. All three languages would be main subjects in the Class X board
exams.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/south-delhi-school-takes-back-language-circular/articleshow/57545361.cms



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