Private aided schools say 'no' to educational reforms

KOZHIKODE: Accusing the CPI-M led LDF Government of trying to impose educational reforms with political motives, managements of private aided schools in Kerala on Saturday threatened to launch an indefinite stir in this regard.

"Over 8,000 schools are functioning under the association and 68 per cent of them are run by individual managements, who have not been included in the dialogue process," General Secretary of the Kerala Private Aided Schools Managers Association R M Parameswaran told reporters here.

The move was "politically-motivated and goes to degrade the educational standards," he charged.

"We will close down our schools en masse in case the government decides to go ahead with implementing the reforms," he said, adding as such the association was not against the reforms but wanted the same to benefit the students.

Claiming that the report being prepared for the proposed reforms was only a "political thesis aimed at suiting the interests of the LDF Government," he said the aided schools would ignore the recommendations and go on an indefinite agitation if they were to be imposed on them.

"The proposed reforms are drafted by people who have no knowledge about the subject," Parameswaran alleged.