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According to you Marathi speaking students shouldn’t attend college or learn English. If you can appreciate diversity don’t join Law school.
“4 generations” - talk about being so unaware of your surroundings.
Another day another blinded folk
Feeling happy with 10 others
Another kid showed up to the college asking if they issue a domicile certificate. Then after arguing with the officials for fifteen minutes he realised he wanted a bona fide certificate, not a domicile.
A lot of these kids also had very substandard English skills. Let's get this straight, that's not a bad thing. But they have gotten seats in an English medium law course, and IIRC, legal language and literature are subjects in the first year.
These kids were set up for doom by the state government, not keeping separate Marathi and English CETs for Law. These kids who might be very articulate in Marathi are being set up for disappointment in an advanced English-medium course. Some of these kids are from under the 70th percentile, which creates an even larger disparity in grades as well as social life.
I mean, there has to be a limit, to how long they can milk the fading brand value they hold, right?
Why is there an option for a Marathi entrance test to an English-medium course anyway? Especially one where a good foothold over English is of paramount importance.
Call NLUs classist or whatever, but they cracked the code to having a competitive student intake without insane disparities when it comes to subjects like literature or legal language or whatever the hell they have there. My brother, who comes from a family educated in English for 4 generations will obviously have an insanely huge advantage over a third of the class that had most of their education in Marathi or even Hindi for that matter.
I don't know whether to be mad at the MH Education Board, or feel sympathetic for a lot of these students. Or both.