Friday, January 30, 2015

Please "Saffronize" our education....

The kids at my home school, had an assignment. In the name of encouraging well rounded development the AP State Board has made up ridiculous questions.

In an exam paper the Q asked is "Go outside see how many birds you see, what types are they. What is your opinion of a bird's life... ?" In an exam, with 30 other questions to finish in two hours !!! Even as an assignment it is a bit of a stretch as in cities in India other than Crows pretty much nothing else is there..

Other Q is How do you make a Rawa Upma ? Icing on the cake.... the students were given a project to gather from newspapers of the past year articles on gender discrimination. Leave alone the fact that they have no permanent housing and newspapers are the least of their priorities. Of course, if you take an article on gender discrimination in Christianity/Islam it is the "wrong answer".

"Only Evils of Hinduism are correct, other religions wrong answer!"


Another project is interview people in your street find out what festivals they celebrate, why, what food/dress etc. Nothing wrong right ? Wrong, there is an extra column added asking "What festivals of other religions you celebrate ?" When I answered "None". The children were terrified at that answer, "But sir, my teacher said that Hindus should definitely answer this. She said that when in doubt write Christmas".
"For correct answer, Hindus must fill out colum for 'other religion festival' !!"


Oh, your sample must include a christian and Muslim, even if there are none living in your area - for the correct answer to get full marks.

This is non-sensical and cancerous secularism has to be thrown out of our textbooks. Even if the media yells "saffronization" so be it...

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