In a statement, the council rationalized the reduction by stating they wanted to reduce the content load on students in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin’s theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy, among others. These changes effectively block a major swath of Indian students from exposure to evolution through textbooks, because tenth grade is the last year mandatory science classes are offered in Indian schools.
Again, quoting the article, it says that many students (although maybe not most) will graduate without an understanding of these three subjects.
How can that be considered a positive, and what’s even more; acceptable?!
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Lol. Welcome to the internet. I don’t have anything more for you sorry. Stay safe.
What secondary sources do you propose we trust? Deutsche-Welle has a reputation for fact-checking and retractions. What’s your source that students who don’t major in math or biology will learn these?
the source is the link to the ncert textbooks he linked, Go through that from 7th Grade to 10th. “Douche-willi”.
That doesn’t answer any of my questions.
that’s because you didn’t even take the effort to read even the index pages. You want to believe what you are already believing. Stop trying to act like you care.
The article says that only students who choose to major in a subject will learn the information’s 11th and 12th grade subject textbooks. I don’t see how the textbooks themselves will tell me anything on Indian majors, especially textbooks from 10th grade and below. I feel like I’m missing something: