Coimbatore: Four months after making a decision to reduce school syllabus by 40%, the state government notified the deleted portions on Sunday.
Teachers welcomed the move. “The State Council of Educational Research & Training has deleted certain topics. But it may not have a significant impact on students because for them, the number of lessons is what matters and not the topic. Now, we will have to mentally prepare the students,” said T Arulanantham, state treasurer of the Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Government Teachers Association (TNHHSSGA).
“We will explain to the students about the deleted portions and make them strike off those topics in textbooks. Otherwise, most of them might find it difficult and it would add to further confusion. The same applies to the evaluation part of each lesson and it will take us another two days,” he added.
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COIMBATORE: Parents of students in nearly 90% high and higher secondary schools here want them to be reopened for Class X and XII students after the Pongal holidays.
Schools had conducted consultation with parents in the last two days following a state government direction, an official with the school education department said. “While some parents participated in person, others phoned and sent letters. More people participated in the meetings, compared to the meetings conducted in November,” he said.
Of the 653 high and higher secondary schools in the district, 590 are in favour of reopening, the official said. “A majority of parents wants to send their wards to the school as they would be taking up board examination.”