Bengaluru: While the government’s teeth to reopen the school in Bengaluru, amid the possibility of the third Covid-19 wave curve, the demand for the new state syllabus school seems to have dropped dramatically, with a significant decline in the number of students choosing to this school.
The Ministry of Education reveals that usually, in a certain year, demands to establish new schools and applications to add higher secondary values for elementary schools that exist anywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 in January.
However, this year, the department has received only 600 applications.
Educational experts say that from 600 of these applications, many are looking for NOC shifting to CBSE or ICSE syllabus while the other is the application to upgrade from elementary school to secondary and secondary high schools.
This even though many parents cannot afford to pay fees in CBSE and ICSE private schools because of a pandemic.
According to management associations for elementary and secondary schools, the number of children enrolled at the state syllabus school – both private or government-owned – has dropped every year by 2% to 3%.
SM Nagesh, Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, said the main reason for this lack of interest in the opening of the new school is that there is a serious scarcity of interest in Karnataka to send children to the State Council schools.
“Most parents today are interested in sending their children to ICSE or CBSE schools,” he said.
“They [parents] are under a misunderstanding that schools are far more proficient in giving their wards with good education.
“D Shashi Kumar, General Secretary for basic Associated Management and Middle School in Karnataka, echoed the same view but he blamed the government because it was not updated syllabus in elementary school in steps with the class and age of children.
“There is a difference marked in the syllabus followed by CBSE and ICSE schools and the State Council school,” Kumar said.
“The state syllabus has not been updated according to age.
“Nagesh other big reasons for increasing demand for ICSE and CBSE schools is the availability of English.
Government officials said there was a large market for English teachers who were boiled by new and bigger schools.
The country has moved to negate this advantage of ICSE and CBSE schools have by launching several English media schools throughout the state.
This step has met with some success.
Nagesh also said that the government planned to strengthen the English language skills in the government managed by the government by introducing as a subject at every school managed by the state at Gram Panchayat level.
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