te: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:03:04 +0400
Dear friends
Passing an examination is one thing and become someone to fit is another thing.
Our SSC E has no standard because the papers are set by someone mostly who has
no control over English. Each time I went through a question paper of science
or maths I noted lots of mistakes and most of the time the questions were mere
translations of marathi. Many of the paper setters were moderators and chief
moderators and when on the first day the paper was discussed they only wanted
us to follow their dictates . There used to be a heated discusssions over
acceptance of certain answers. Some of the questions had many answers.
Sometimes the questions were wrongly framed and wrong too. In maths there used
to be many wrong questions. The board never thought of taking serious actions
and the student community kept quiet. That is the reason the board is afraid to
give to the students a xerox copy of their answer sheet to be taken at home for
fear that the students may get the xerox paper corrected by their respective
teacher .The other thing is the school curriculum does not make any one stand
straight on the earth. Our students after passing college do not find a
suitable job because we are examination oriented. How many of our students
after graduation can stand and talk fluently over a mike, or before some group
of company personal in an interview? How many of our people working can discus
on a debate on a tv ? In school we are taught stupid subjects like compulsory
english, hindi, konkani or marathi, maths science and social sciences. Our
students mug up and answer the examinations. Villages specially the remote ones
which is invaded by marathi politicians are like martyrs when they answer the
examinations. The teachers themselves do not have a command over the subjects
but they have managed to invade the board and the education department. Albert
> From: ffernandes....@emaar.ae
> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
> Subject: [Goanet] Konkani MOI
>
> In response to:
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> Message: 7
>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 19:38:54 +0100
>
> From: Tony de Sa <tonyde...@gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI
>
>
>
> Dear Tony,
>
>
>
> Honestly I did not want to get involved in this charade called MOI, we are in
> a
> Democracy where a majority counts but that does not give you or any body else
> the right to discredit the minority and when people like your good self who
> are
> educated and are also educationists, talk through their hats, a correction is
> justified, mind you it's not a confrontation, it's a correction.
>
>
>
> Let me be specific, you said that "There is nothing spectacular about students
> who have studied in regional languages who do well at the SSC examinations".
> You
> further said that "marks are brought up" by the unqualified moderators to pass
> these students. Now would you say that this "phenomena" benefits only the
> regional language students and the English medium students do not benefit from
> this "phenomena" ? As far as I know there are no markings on the SSC or the
> HSSC
> papers to say that the students are from English medium, Konkanni medium or
> even
> Marathi medium primary schools. So how can you say that that only the regional
> language students benefit from this "phenomena" ? We surely did not have
> different boards for different MOI at SCC or HSSC.
>
>
>
> Do you seriously believe that all English medium students pass SSC and HSSC
> without the benefit of this "phenomena" and all regional language students do
> ?
> Aren't you being totally bias here or even racists to words the Konkanni
> medium
> students ? For your kind information, only the students that do not do well
> are
> helped by this you're so called "phenomena" irrelevant to the MOI, and all
> those
> that do well in either case are the ones that do not need this benefit. A
> person of your caliber should have known that better than me.
>
>
>
> Did not Konkanni and Marathi medium students pass through normal and even
> professional colleges ? There are a lot of professionals, Doctors, Engineers,
> specialized technicians, Lawyers, priests, religious, scientists and others
> who
> have passed through regional language primary schools, but did they get the
> benefit of the same "phenomena" in their respective colleges and universities
> ?
> Do you want to say that even in our professional colleges marks are "brought
> up"
> to pass the regional language primary students ? Do you really want all these
> people to believe that ?
>
>
>
> I am aware of the fact that all students who do not perform to the required
> level are given grace marks, I am also aware that a lot of our teachers and
> moderators are unqualified, these moderators do make mistakes in general and
> not
> necessarily only against brilliant students, we had them then and we have them
> now but the credibility, the hard work and the dedication that the konkanni
> medium students have put in should not be diluted or distorted by some inane
> perceptions, I can proudly say that my fellow Konkanni medium students have
> been
> competing with the best in different fields and different wakes of life
> without
> the benefit of your stated "phenomena" and I say that we are on par if not
> better than the English medium students, as we have the added knowledge of our
> mother tongue.
>
>
>
> Everyone has rights in a democratic setup but those rights should by no means
> be
> used to distort, disgrace or even discredit others that have worked hard and
> in
> earnest within the realms and precincts of virtues to be where they are.
>
>
>
> Blame the system and if you, can change the system but for God's sake do not
> try
> to flood the minds of people around with your inane perceptions.
>
>
>
> Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
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