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The Mysuru territory committee of the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) has criticised the State government’s valuation strategy for span people examinations successful bilingual-medium schools, alleging that it “discriminates against students who take to constitute their answers successful Kannada”.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, AIDSO territory caput Nithin claimed that nether the appraisal model introduced this world year, students successful bilingual-medium authorities schools are awarded an ‘A Grade’ lone if they reply successful English, portion those penning successful Kannada are reportedly constricted to a ‘B Grade’ irrespective of the prime of their responses.
The organisation questioned the mode successful which the bilingual-medium strategy was introduced, alleging that the argumentation was implemented without capable consultation with students, teachers, parents and acquisition experts.
The AIDSO maintained that mother-tongue acquisition forms a important instauration for learning and argued that the authorities has ignored the views consistently expressed by connection experts and educationists successful favour of strengthening acquisition successful the autochthonal language. It said students should beryllium encouraged to larn and explicit themselves successful their parent tongue.
Demanding contiguous corrective measures, the organisation urged the authorities to retreat what it termed an “anti-education, unscientific and undemocratic” valuation strategy and guarantee that students person the state to take Kannada arsenic a mean of learning.
