| Author: Sukhsagar Prajapati 28 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 3 |
This is abslutely rediculos. This should not happen with anybody here the person has been given punishment just for speaking mother toung. People who do these kind humiliation should be send to jail and be treated the way they treat others. These kind of humiliation are mostly seen in india only. In other countries I dont thin this kind of humiliation is done with school students.
Sukhsagar Prajapati
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| Author: Latha Jayaprakash 28 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 4 |
Hi Prabhakar,
May be,for the School authorities what they say is correct because children get sent to English medium schools to improve their language. It is their duty. But what is wrong is that they should not discourage students from talking in their mother tongue.
Hanging placards on children's neck saying "I never speak in Telugu" is wrong. That will make a child feel humiliated. It could be that "I will speak only English in School". That will make a big difference in meaning and does not sound negative too.
How can they ask the students not to speak in Telugu? That's really wrong, I feel. The teachers can ask the Children just to speak in English in School so that they can improve and get fluent in English.
Regards
Latha Jayaprakash
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| Author: Rekha 28 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 3 |
It’s a punishment which will benefit that student only........ I don’t think any wrong in that.... At lest he will speak in english.. Students can speak their mother tongue language outside the school if they wish.. Children has to follow the rules of school, if he don’t he deserve punishment. If he speak in english at lest in school hours his fluency and accent in english will be good which most of the people lack.
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| Author: Prabhakar 28 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 3 |
Dear Latha,
Thank you for your valuable opinion on this issue.
It could be that "I will speak only English in School".
What you suggested is really nice.
The parents also should be blamed for such incidents.
The parents also insist their children not to speak in Telugu.
Every student must learn English.No doubt in it.
But that should not be in the way as the teachers did .
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| Author: N K Ravishankara 29 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 3 |
Parents cannot insist not to speak in their mother tongue in the school on their children, may be influence of mother tongue insists some children to learn English slowly in some cases, more over it is common tendency in any part of the country to speak in their own language, when they come across people from their region.
Schools can insist students to speak with them in English in a way to help them to learn English, but they cannot insist students to speak in English everywhere.
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| Author: Latha Jayaprakash 29 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 4 |
I have seen many parents trying to make their children call them daddy , papa, mummy and mamma etc There is no point in our changing our tradition like that.
Yes Prabhakar, what you said is right. It is really a pity that the parents are also insisting children talk to them in English. The children should be taught to speak in English but they should not be asked not to use their mother tongue at all.
Mother tongue should be given the first preference at home. English can be spoken outside with their school / class mates and also in school. It would be nice if we could make our children proficient in two languages at least if not three as our government says.
Regards
Latha Jayaprakash
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| Author: T.M.Sankaran 03 Nov 2009 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 6 |
This type of actions from the school authorities are reported from different parts of the country. In an English Medium school in Kerala, the student, who used mother tongue in school, was punished by removing his hair completely.
Some of the students who could not request for permission to go to toilets in English had to suffer without passing their urine through out the working time.
Some students who came in the local dress (dhothy and shirts - Kerala style) on the Kerala State formation day (November 1st), were suspended from the school. (In Kerala, it is a common practice among the employees, workers, students, etc., to come to the work place in traditional dress marking the State formation day; also when Onam celebrations are there).
Studying any language is welcome. English is a must for acquiring better knowledge, no doubt. But that should not be a reason to deny the rights of anybody to speak in their mother tongue. Both should go parellel.
In earlier periods (when aged people like me studied), most of the schools were in the regional language. We studied English as a second language (actually here it was the first language, but the medium of instruction was not English). This has not created any problem when we went for higher studies. Also when I started teaching the Post Graduate Students at the University level, in English medium, I did not face any difficulty. So it is learning the laguage is more important, not becoming fanatic about it.
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