Kasargod: Malayali teacher posted to Kannada school comes with police protection


Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Jan 16: The government has again begun its habit of posting Malayali mother tongue teachers to Kannada medium schools located in border areas of Karnataka and Kerala. Even though the Kannada teachers protested against this, the Malayali teacher attended Kannada medium school on Tuesday with police protection but the Kannadiga students did not allow her to conduct classes.

Uduma Fisheries Higher Secondary School in the district has classes from fifth to tenth standards. In this school where the medium of instruction is Kannada, over a hundred Kannadiga students study. During October last, a Malayali language teacher had been posted here to teach social science but the students and parents had held protest for four days seeking to withdraw her transfer order. The department had then sent the teacher on three months’ vacation.


Uduma Fisheries Higher Secondary School (file photo)

The teacher, at the end of her vacation, came to the school on Tuesday but the students boycotted classes and held protest. The parents too came to the school later. The teacher then got police protection and entered the school but the students and teachers expressed their determination not to allow Malayali teacher to take classes. The parents complained that the police chided the students with derogatory words on this occasion.

The teacher posted now knows only Malayalam and she continued to be seated in the teachers’ room on account of protest on Tuesday, and did not conduct classes. The teacher, who was sent on leave, has not learnt Kannada. If she teaches in Malayalam, the students do not understand. Therefore, students, parents and Kannada organizations had demanded to post Kannadiga teachers to the school. The promise made by education minster Prof Raveendranathan to fulfill this demand, has not been met.

It is said that by misusing certain provisions in Kerala State Public Services Commission, method of examination and interviews, 23 Malayali teachers have bagged jobs by getting included under Kannada teachers although they do not know Kannada. This is giving rise to friction between the Kannada and Malayali teachers in Kannada schools.

In the past, when Malayali teachers were posted to four higher secondary schools run in Kannada medium, the government had sent such teachers on leave. A few teachers had resigned from jobs and returned to their original vocations. Two had opted to learn Kannada at Mysuru.

The teachers who went on leave are reporting back for duties one by one but they have not learnt Kannada. In the girls’ high school as Hosdurg, Malayali language teacher is teaching mathematics to Kannada students. Similar situation exists in Bekal fisheries school. The border area Kannadigas seem to have become helpless in the face of posting of Malayalam teachers by the stubborn government there.

 

 

  

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  • THAMPAN, mangaluru

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    This is just a fight for govt job. Kasaragod is a conglomeration of languages . There is no language segregation in Kasaragod. Even spoken malayalam in kasaragod is half tulu and kannada. Let the problem be solved by people of Kasaragod.

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  • Frank, Tulunad Rajya

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    Both the parties are wrong. Kasrodu, kudla, Odipu are neither Malyali nor kannadiga lands. These are Tulu lands.

    Stop teaching both kannad and Malyalam. Malyali and Kannadigas learn English and teach their languages to Tuluvas. Everyone in Tulunadu don't learn these languages. There is no use.

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  • Vipin Gopan, Bangalore

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    More than the news... what worries me is the comments section where I can only see hatred....

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  • abdul munim, mangaluru

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    Dear Vipin,

    You must be aware that Mallus are hated everywhere in India as well as in gulf countries by other Indians.

    The reason is that you people always think you are the superior breed and only your people should grow in any organization. I have been the victim of such a groupism of Malayalees.

    Will you allow a Kannada teacher to teach you Malayalam in Kerala? How much you people love people from other states?

    How many Kannadigas are working in Kerala government jobs? There are plenty in Karnataka

    Believe me Karnataka is the most tolerant state in whole of India.

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  • donald, mangalore

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    HANUMANDA WEND TO SRI LANGA IN SEARj OF SEEDA. HANUMANDA SET FIRE AND WHOLU LANGA BURNED. KASARGOD SCHOOL STUDENT WILL FIND DIFFICULT to understand this am i right?

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  • Joe, Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    Ha ha ha . You.re talking like Donald Duck , Donald

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  • Sunil Pinto, Dubai/ Udupi

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    Q: Why did the mallu take the train to mangalapuram central station?

    A: SIMBLY

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    Do we have a shortage of Teachers in Karnataka ...

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  • Dinesh Kumar Shetty, Katipalla/Mangaluru

    Fri, Jan 17 2020

    Will somebody show him the state map of Karnataka, explain him that Kasargod is not in our state

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  • Jude, Belman

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    We need to protest this in front of kerala samajam in manglore.these mallues are trying to make MANGALURU to MANGALAPORAM.

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  • Praveen Lobo, Bangalore, Bantwal

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    We are Indians just for name sake. We cannot compromise with caste, creed, language, sex and boldly say that we are secular.

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  • Jude, Belman

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    Boss just try to get a work experience between mallues and by chance if u are alone non mallu.then you will forget your secularisam right that day.

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  • ravi, Mangalore

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    Jude you are absolutely right.The mallus are united in terms of language.Unfortunately we kannadigas will never be as united

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  • Jude, Belman

    Thu, Jan 16 2020

    If you want a small trailer just visit manglore sorry mangalapuram railway station.

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