India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
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#2Wow. I'd consider this grounds for a riot-level protest in the street.
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#3Is education free in India ? I believe it is.
With that said, seems India is mirroring the US in making sure only the wealthy will get a good education (private schools).
It is a dangerous game doing that, eventually the mass will rise up once they realize their children have no hope in succeeding.
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#4Cutting and defunding education seems such a prevalent global trend, I find it hard to believe there is no hidden agenda.
At least here it seems to happen with the clear political agenda. Who needs evolution and democracy anyways other than those inconvenient to the indian government.
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#5Is education free in India ? I believe it is. With that said, seems India is mirroring the US in making sure only the wealthy will get a good education (private schools). It is a dangerous game doing that, eventually the mass will rise up once they realize their children have no hope in succeeding.
It is far more common in India to go to a private school. As a rule of thumb, if you know an educated Indian, they went to private school.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/in...
This makes this decision both more and less outrageous. On one level, it had less effect than a similar decision than the US. On the other, it helps cripple the poor in India (who are actually poor, not American poor).
Re: India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
#6"chapters on democracy and diversity; political parties; and challenges to democracy have been scrapped" this is even more dangerous.
Re: India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
#7It's only affecting 10th grade CBSE (NCERT), not ICSE or state board* exams, let alone competitive board exams like the JEE (Engineering) or NEET (Medicine).
It's still being taught in the NCERT books as well, but now in 12th grade instead of 10th grade.
The scarier thing should be the rewriting of the history section of CBSE.
* board is Indian English for curriculum
Also, on the hierarchy of Indian board exams:
Top - ICSE
Medium - some State Boards
Low - CBSE, some state boards
Board exams are orthogonal to college entrance exams in India.
For example, IIT and Engineering admissions are gated by the JEE, so students oftentimes bunk 10th-12th grade to study the JEE and try to get a D average in the Board exam (because there's only so much you can study).
Board exams do have value though for most average colleges though and some top tier non-Eng ones (eg. If I wanted to study Law at St Stephen's College, University of Delhi or Business at Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi - both programs that feed into the political and business elite of India).
The Indian system is confusing and weird and there is some reform within it to become much more similar to the American system, but that's a work in progress.
Re: India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
#8Is education free in India ? I believe it is. With that said, seems India is mirroring the US in making sure only the wealthy will get a good education (private schools). It is a dangerous game doing that, eventually the mass will rise up once they realize their children have no hope in succeeding.
It is far more common in India to go to a private school. As a rule of thumb, if you know an educated Indian, they went to private school. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/in... This makes this decision both more and less outrageous. On one level, it had less effect than a similar decision than the US. On the other, it helps cripple the poor in India (who are actually poor, not American poor)…
Both public and private schools in India use NCERT books and have the same examinations. Private schools only ensure things are taught better, what is taught is still the same.
Re: India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
#9Is education free in India ? I believe it is. With that said, seems India is mirroring the US in making sure only the wealthy will get a good education (private schools). It is a dangerous game doing that, eventually the mass will rise up once they realize their children have no hope in succeeding.
Its free but there aren't enough schools and many kids dont attend.
The trend in the us is not making sure only the wealthy get a good education. more people in the us than ever go to college and we are smarter and more educated than ever before.
Re: India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
#10Is education free in India ? I believe it is. With that said, seems India is mirroring the US in making sure only the wealthy will get a good education (private schools). It is a dangerous game doing that, eventually the mass will rise up once they realize their children have no hope in succeeding.
(I'm Indian but left India ~15 years ago, so my info may be out of date.)
It's free in government schools, what Americans would call public schools. Middle and upper class kids usually go to public schools, what Americans would call private schools, which have fees and may use non-NCERT textbooks too. I believe that for a school to be ratified it is only required that it teach at least what is mandated by the relevant education board (generally the national level one, CBSE), so it would be okay for a ratified school to use a private textbook that teaches the NCERT syllabus + periodic table + evolution.
Also college coaching classes (for IIT-JEE etc) may continue to cover these topics anyway. Even during my time they were covering topics that had been cut from the government-mandated curriculum, so it wouldn't be surprising.