Error-Filled Textbooks in India Claim Japan Nuked US
- 10 years ago
Students attending schools in Gujarat, India are learning from a textbook that has at least 120 factual, grammar, and spelling errors.
Students attending schools in Gujarat, India are learning from a textbook that has at least 120 factual, grammatical, and spelling errors.
Some of the gaffes are significant, including misreporting the assassination date of Mahatma Gandhi and saying that Japan waged a nuclear attack on the US during World War 2.
It also names the abundance of carbon trioxide, which only rarely occurs in nature, as the environmentally damaging side effect of cutting down trees.
The worst offender is reportedly the Standard 8 social science textbook that is currently used by approximately 50 thousand students.
It was published by the Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training and intended for use at all of the state-run schools.
Both parents and students are quite upset by the amount and seriousness of the erroneous information and are questioning how the book even made it into the classroom.
One school principal said, "This clearly is the reflection of the competency of the writers of the book... there should have been some semblance of sensibility while clearing the draft of these books."
The state’s education minister announced that a review committee has been established, but has not removed the books from schools.
Students attending schools in Gujarat, India are learning from a textbook that has at least 120 factual, grammatical, and spelling errors.
Some of the gaffes are significant, including misreporting the assassination date of Mahatma Gandhi and saying that Japan waged a nuclear attack on the US during World War 2.
It also names the abundance of carbon trioxide, which only rarely occurs in nature, as the environmentally damaging side effect of cutting down trees.
The worst offender is reportedly the Standard 8 social science textbook that is currently used by approximately 50 thousand students.
It was published by the Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training and intended for use at all of the state-run schools.
Both parents and students are quite upset by the amount and seriousness of the erroneous information and are questioning how the book even made it into the classroom.
One school principal said, "This clearly is the reflection of the competency of the writers of the book... there should have been some semblance of sensibility while clearing the draft of these books."
The state’s education minister announced that a review committee has been established, but has not removed the books from schools.