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Private schools across India have decided to continue teaching deleted portions of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus because the deletions are "not well thought out" and remove core concepts and events. School officials have stated that they will instruct their teachers to teach the deleted portions of the syllabus. This is just as the upcoming NCERT books hit the market.

"Everything will be taught." I'm not interested in discussing history. There has been a lot of political commotion about it, but there are some fundamentals.

There are many political commotions about it, but there are core concepts in chemistry and maths that drop that no one is talking about. "These are concepts that we will have to teach whether or not they are in the textbooks," said Sudha Acharya, principal of ITL Public School in Delhi. Not only do the deletions harm students hoping to take national-level entrance exams for professional courses like engineering and medicine, but they also harm the learning process. Teachers have pointed out that the "rationalized" textbooks miss key concepts for junior students, making it difficult for them to grasp concepts later on.

NCERT began rationalizing textbooks in June 2022 to reduce the content load for students in Classes 6 to 12. The newly released textbooks are now available.

Many significant topics, including portions on air, water, soil, and cell structures for Classes 6 to 8, the theory of evolution, and periodic classification of elements for Classes 9 to 12, have been deleted as part of the rationalization process. Teachers say the deletions make hastily and will increase rather than decrease the burden on teachers and students.

From the standpoint of biology, it is the beginning of biology, the most significant chapter in biology. The same chapter appears in Class 9 but with more complex terms and topics. The child is now completely clueless. So, who bears the burden? The child's name is. Because they are unfamiliar with the terminology or the concept," explained Madhu Kaushik, principal of Eureka Public School in Narnaul, Haryana. "It is also a burden on teachers because they will have to teach the entire concepts of both Class 8 and Class 9."

'History has been wronged'

The most significant and contentious removals from history and political science textbooks have included entire chapters on Mughal emperors and events surrounding them, the Varna system, and the practice and abolition of untouchability. Schools have stated that children cannot afford to miss classes, so teachers will use old NCERT textbooks to instruct these topics. "Most significant events omit, and omissions are an injustice to history." Every school has the authority to decide whether or not to teach the deleted sections. We will have the relevant teachers teach these sections using the previous textbooks. Formerly administered by the state government, education includes on the concurrent list. A private school is not a slave.