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What's with the circulars, CBSE?- 29-Aug-2015

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It's raining circulars at CBSE schools!

Of late, the Central Board of Secondary Education has been bombarding its schools with circulars after circulars drawing the ire of the school heads and teachers alike, who find it hard to keep up with the already-tight academic schedule.

After the CBSE shot off its recent circular urging its affiliated schools to celebrate 'Sanskrit week' to popularise and stimulate interest in the language, the school heads started to air out their uneasiness.

While the CBSE circular directed schools to observe Sanskrit week from August 26 to September 1 by organising activities like poem writing, shloka antakshari, essay writing and screening of Sanskrit film to promote the language, it confused a section of teachers while a few others have slammed it as another move to impose the language on students. The confusion was over how the week would be celebrated in true spirit as students in most of the schools do not understand the language.

Not just this, the CBSE has been sending a series of circulars much to the apprehension of the schools.

Earlier this week, to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, it issued a circular to celebrate the birthday of the architect of the Indian Constitution in a big way. It instructed the schools to conduct a mock Parliament and plan trips to it and legislative assemblies.

School heads say that such circulars only create unnecessary burden and disrupt schedule as these are often sent on short notice. One even wondered how such trips can be organised in at such a short notice.

CBSE circulars had been lined up for celebrating special days, commemorating leaders and conducting contests, including the expression series on several personalities.

Several schools have reportedly asked the Board, if it is so keen in raising awareness on certain personalities and issues, to incorporate them in the books rather than issuing circulars and asking the schools to "celebrate" days and weeks and hold essay contests on such short notice. Most of the CBSE schools are ill-prepared, while some are said to just ignore these circulars. Some opine that instead of concentrating on circulars, the Board can focus on improving the quality of education.

Another CBSE circular asking the schools to provide mobile numbers and email address of the students from Classes IX to XII had stoked a controversy. It had asked the students to debate uniform civil code and death penalty. Earlier this year, the Board�s directive to schools to celebrate the International Day of Yoga on June 21 upset many private schools.

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