On 28/09/06 21:35 +0530, freeman murray wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I just joined this list and planned to lurk for awhile > but a group I support 'The Digital Studyhall' > http://dsh.cs.washington.edu/ is having some > problems around Bangalore with the government > shutting down many of the schools we've been > working with.
I sympathise. Stupid political stunts by the government do no good. > As far as I can understand the schools are being > shut down for teaching english below the 10th > standard without a permit. > These schools were licensed to teach in Kannada as the primary medium of instruction. However, they were using English as the primary medium, and Kannada was being relegated to the second language, on demand from the parents of the children. Devdas Bhagat
