Dear GoanettersI had been in the teaching field since 1994till 2004. Each time
I had to teach the fifth and the sixth standard it was a nightmare. Children
coming from Konkani and Marathi medium did not know a word of English and I had
literally to teach them alphabets and how to write simple sentences. So I had
kept one period of all the teaching periods for writing simple English. Not
only that the children in the primary were taught to write in block letters
which made their hand writing a horrible one.I am a student of Lourdes convent
and Sr.Irene taught me to write English the cursive way and today many people
who see me write comment on wonderful handwriting that I have. My daughter
Arlette was also taught writing by the same teacher sr. Irene and she too has
cursive handwriting. Other children of mine are yet to develope the same. Let
us have English medium of instruction and the teacher can speak to the children
in konkani when they cannot understand English. It is easy for those who have
no children or to those whose children are already grown big to preach on
konkani as medium but for those parents whose children were in konkani medium
know how they had to struggle to teach their children English.when they reached
the middle school albert de souza
> From: floriano.l...@gmail.com
> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:34:37 +0530
> CC: so...@bsnl.in
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Baba Ramdev's instruction v/s Goan's medium of
> instruction
>
> This from Soter is fully and completely endorsed.
>
> BTW: When I talk of mother-tongue as the desired language/medium of
> instruction in primary schools ( std. 1 to IV only), I am talking of the
> spoken language which according to me is the language that all Goans speak
> at home (shasti dialect included) including the Marathi lobby and is the
> spoken language in over 95 per cent of Goan homes.
>
> It is another matter altogether that communals (like Adv. Uday Bhembre & Co)
> have infiltrated our beloved Konkani with ANTRUZI by heavily sanskrutizing
> and slaughtering the Konkani that has been spoken widely in Goa for many
> centuries by adopting some Portuguese words (like 'passoek/walk' ;
> 'bolos/poket' 'sucegad/easy going etc).
>
> Konkani should have been in Roman Script only (like many countries like
> Malaysia etc have). Attaching communal colour to a script is the work of
> Goan communal devils.
>
> Communals who smash Portuguese name plaques of Goan names must be smashed
> out of Goa.
>
> Goa Su-Raj shall do this job effectively by first stopping his pensions to
> pension fighters like Naguesh Karmali & Co and drive them out of Goa's
> boundaries if they will not behave themselves as Goans but act as agents of
> BJP-RSS in Goa.
>
> :-))
> Cheers
>
> floriano
> goasuraj
> 9890470896
> www.goasu-raj.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SOTER" <so...@bsnl.in>
> To: <goa...@goanet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 11:08 PM
> Subject: [Goanet] Baba Ramdev's instruction v/s Goan's medium of instruction
>
>
> The Goan casteist-communal cowards now rope in a 'bhailo', Baba Ramdev, to
> justify their unpopular demand of imposing devanagiri konkani as the medium
> of instruction on all Goans. There is nothing new in this dirty tactic as a
> similar game was played during the konkani agitation where these very
> pro-maharashtra agents roped in the Shiv Sena to try and intimidate the
> konknivadis. That is why it was a Floriano Vaz from Gogol, Margao that got
> shot at point blank range for no real reason. The manufactured
> konkani-marathi divide was exploited and used to shove devanagiri script as
> the official script for konkani down the throats of Goans. The communal
> agenda was further advanced by the Jai Maharashtra brigade of Shashikala
> Kakodkar. Twenty years later the move has backfired as this communal move
> has adversely affected the education prospects of both communities. The
> victim is the konkani language.
> Polarising the communities has been the most trusted weapon of Goa's
> casteist-communal opportunists that have reaped rich dividends since the
> liberation of Goa. They have managed to divide and reap Goa's resources in
> the countryside and sell it to Japan and China. In hind sight one can deduce
> that United Goans Party and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party were
> manufactured by one and the same casteist-communal oppressors. These
> casteist opportunists created the alliance between BJP and MGP in 1998
> election and enjoyed the exploits until 2004, but no sooner their agendas
> were not fulfilled they began releasing ads claiming that the very same BJP
> is communal. The enemy of Goa is within and not somewhere else. The sooner
> Goans discern between genuine issues and those systematically popularised
> with vested interests, the better will it be for the survival of Goa and the
> Goan people.
> The Opinion Poll may have defined Goa's destiny as a seperate identity in
> 1968 but these mergerists that continue to be holed up within the State and
> patronised by these casteist-communal forces have not given up yet. Goans
> need to realise that communal and political battles often get fought in
> proxy. It will be done through priests or OBC, or Bhandari, or Cristao, or
> Hindu. So the face that pretends to smile and offers you a golden hand
> shake on the street as long as he needs your collaboration, may not
> necessarily think otherwise when going about armed with hammer and tongs
> smashing name plaques, renaming roads, calling you 'denationalised' and a
> Portuguese agent or budging into the Bishop's House on the excuse of
> protecting a 'Linga' from desecration. The smile will not change the
> perception of the 'cristaos' as animals from the wild west that need to be
> tamed with local sanskruti.
> So while Wee Willie Winkie came to Panjim riding on Goan donkeys, Baba
> Ramdev seems to ride into Goa on communal polarisation.
>
> -Soter
>
