State's English plan disappoints

The state government has disappointed parents who were hoping to get their children admitted in English- medium government schools. 

When the plan was introduced in the schools, it was implemented only from the first standard. Parents who admitted children in LKG and UKG are missing out on the scheme.

According to sources, members of school management committees ( SMC) of  156 government schools had applied for the permission to introduce English medium in the pre- primary sections in Adilabad district.

Teachers had campaigned for the introduction of English medium in the government school in the villages as part of Badi Bata Panduga to attract the students.

Officials said the government’s decision to not introduce English in the earliest classes was actually a set back in their fight to increase enrollment in the government schools.

Teachers and members of School Management Committee (SMC) disappointed a lot with government’s decision to introduce English medium only from first class.

Most of the parents admitted their children bellow five years in government schools where teachers promised to introduce English medium but now they are in confusion over continuing their children in the government school where there was no medium of instruction was English in LKG and UKG.

The general trend is that parents admit their kids, who just entered into three years, in Nursery or LKG so that they student become five- year- old when they entered into first class.

Teachers who took the admissions of students bellow five years promising to run LKG and UKG classes are not in a position to take a decision on continuing these students.

A.   Venkat, general secretary of the Telangana State United Teachers Federation ( TUTF) said state government’s decision not to allow admissions into LKG and UKG was a setback to their efforts to increase the enrollment of the students in government schools and reduce the financial burden on the families paying a high fee for their children in private institutions.   

It was difficult for anybody to bring the students studying Ist class or who completed UKG in private schools to government schools for giving them admission in first class.