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CBSE directs TS schools not to use non-NCERT textbooks
After the Telangana State government directed the private schools in the State not to use private textbooks, it’s now the CBSE’s (Central Board of Secondary Education) turn. The CBSE in a circular on Monday directed all the schools not to coerce the parents to buy additional textbooks.
Hyderabad: After the Telangana State government directed the private schools in the State not to use private textbooks, it’s now the CBSE’s (Central Board of Secondary Education) turn. The CBSE in a circular on Monday directed all the schools not to coerce the parents to buy additional textbooks.
“This is a matter of grave concern and 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,” the Board stated. The CBSE in its circular further said that it was educationally unsound as the NCERT textual materials were the base to prepare tests for the board examination.
The question papers of the CBSE would be set according to the prescribed syllabus of the subject. It may be mentioned here that Prof Yashpal committee in its report entitled ‘learning without burden’ had made several recommendations to reduce the curricular burden and stress on the children. The National Curriculum Framework called for several curricular reforms to make children’s life at school enjoyable.
In spite of all these initiatives, it was unfortunate that several schools were exerting pressure on children and their parents to buy excessive number of textbooks that were predominantly not NCERT publishers, the Board stated. Speaking on the issue, a school principal of a CBSE school in the city, on the condition of anonymity, said that schools prescribe private publishers of textbooks as their standards were better than that of NCERT’s.
“It is true that it adds an extra load on the children’s shoulder. But private publisher textbooks give in depth knowledge about a particular topic which is not in the NCERT books,” she adds. On the other hand, parents welcomed CBSE’s move as it would reduce the burden on the children.
“The school in which my daughter is studying prescribed private publishers books and we planned to buy. In the wake of the Board circular, we decided not to buy. Some material asked by the school to buy is available on the internet,” said Satya, a parent.
