Textbooks issue still a nightmare for parents

Textbooks issue still a nightmare for parents

By our correspondent

KARACHI: Parents and students who are visiting the Urdu Bazar time and again for purchasing textbooks are confused about which textbook to buy and which to leave in the wake of the extreme controversy over the revision of curricula of certain subjects.

Certain quarters especially those among students had been raising incessant clamour over amendments in the textbooks, which they deemed against the spirit of Islam and the ideological basis of the country.

The federal government had decided to include Qur’aanic verses in the Class-XI Biology textbook whose deletion in the last edition had attracted a very strong criticism from concerned education circles.

Other textbooks at the school-level especially those of Social Studies and Urdu were reportedly under review by the Ministry of Education to do away with objectionable amendments made in them.

They said it was sheer negligence and slackness on the government’s part for failing to completely resolve the controversy surrounding the revised curricula.

They said that newspapers and electronic media were abounded with varying statements of the government on the issue, which was only adding to the confusion of parents and students.

They held that the ultimate losers would be students whose academic session had started from April 1.


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