AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT..
A school started by Fr. Zephrenus Baxla SDB, in Loordippa, some 35 km. from Chainpur (Jharkhand). The school was established in 2000 and today there are about 600 boys and girls from classes I to X. It has 16 teachers. The school also provides hostel facilities where there are 350 boys and girls. The students come from Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and different parts of Jharkhand.
The school is unique because there are very few schools which have Kurux as the medium of instruction. The students are taught in English and Kurux (their mother tongue). Mother tongue as the medium of instruction helps in the intellectual development of the children. Moreover, education in their mother tongue gives them a sense of identity, of belonging to a tribe. On the visit to school one can easily find the children interacting in English with confidence and speaking their mother tongue Kurux with pride.
The school is primarily for the tribals (Christians and Sarna). There are not Hindus and well-to-do people and children from business class.Four batches have passed out from the school and they are doing their college studies. They come to visit Loordippa every year.
The school is unique because there are very few schools which have Kurux as the medium of instruction. The students are taught in English and Kurux (their mother tongue). Mother tongue as the medium of instruction helps in the intellectual development of the children. Moreover, education in their mother tongue gives them a sense of identity, of belonging to a tribe. On the visit to school one can easily find the children interacting in English with confidence and speaking their mother tongue Kurux with pride.
The school is primarily for the tribals (Christians and Sarna). There are not Hindus and well-to-do people and children from business class.Four batches have passed out from the school and they are doing their college studies. They come to visit Loordippa every year.
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