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Parents, just buy NCERT textbooks- 21-Jul-2015
Chennai: Parents, just get the prescribed NCERT textbooks for your wards, and if the schools force you to purchase additional books from private publishers, give them a big 'no'.
In a bid to stop schools from engaging in "unhealthy" practices and unnecessarily burdening the schoolchildren, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a circular to principals of all schools under it warning them against the practice of "coercing" parents to buy textbooks other than NCERT books.
The circular read, "The CBSE would like to reiterate its stand in unequivocal terms that prescribing of too many textbooks and coercing parents and children to buy them is an unhealthy practice that is educationally unsound, especially since NCERT textual materials are the base for preparing test items in the board examination and the question paper of CBSE is set according to the prescribed syllabus of the subject."
This circular has come after the CBSE received a series of complaints stating that many schools were coercing parents to buy textbooks other than those prescribed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). "Schools are compelling children to purchase and use books of publishers other than NCERT which are costly, voluminous, and unscientifically designed. This practice of the schools is jeopardizing the proper teaching-learning activities of the schools and pressurizing students," the circular said.
This circular has been sent to the over 14,000 schools affiliated to the Board. But about the other schools? Excessive amounts of textbooks and notebooks have been a back-breaking problem for the schoolchildren. At tender ages, this educational overload poses several health and posture risks for kids.
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