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.