Spoken English will be taught from primary classes in the proposed “government model schools,” a new project announced in the recently tabled State Budget, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education B.C. Nagesh said.
Participating in a round table conference organised by Kannada Sahitya Parishat on Kannada schools in the city on Tuesday, Mr. Nagesh also said the State Government had already begun experimenting with bilingual textbooks in Kannada and English at English-medium schools run by the State, and it was an experiment worth considering to be expanded.
Mr. Nagesh said several Kannada reforms taken up by successive Governments had suffered setbacks due to multiple court orders. “We are also deeply concerned about the dwindling number of students in Kannada schools. The recent experiment of Karnataka Public Schools has been a success because it has an English medium of education. We need to work together to stem this tide,” he said.
