“What people were slow to see was that the wife’s emancipation destroyed the parent’s authority over the children. The mother did not exemplify the obedience she still tried to insist … to the man. In bringing down from their seat the wife and mother deprived themselves, in fact, of the means of discipline.”
This is the final paragraph of a comprehension passage that a number of college students obtained of their Class 10 Class 1 CBSE board examination English paper on Saturday criticized for being “regressive” and offensive to girls.
According to the board, the passage appeared in a single set of his English query papers.
The passage was in part A or studying part. One of the questions based mostly on the passage asks whether or not the writer “appears to be a malevolent pig/an arrogant person”; “takes a light-hearted approach to life”; “Has an unsatisfied husband”; or “the welfare of his family is at his heart”.
According to the board’s reply key, the right reply is “takes a light-hearted approach to life”.
Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took to Twitter and retweeted Ansh’s photos, writing: “Unbelievable! Are we actually educating this drivel to youngsters? Clearly the BJP authorities helps these regressive views on girls, then why would they be a part of the CBSE syllabus.
Incredible! Are we actually educating this drivel to youngsters?
Clearly the BJP authorities helps these regressive views on girls, then why would they be a part of the CBSE syllabus? @cbseindia29 aranendramodi , pic.twitter.com/yplSAvG91Z
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) December 12, 2021
Late on Sunday night time, CBSE PRO Rama Sharma issued a press release: “The matter shall be referred to topic specialists for consideration as per the pre-determined procedures of the Board. With regard to the right reply choice and reply key launched by the Board, it’s clarified that if specialists are of the view that there are a number of interpretations within the passage, acceptable motion shall be taken to guard the curiosity of the scholars.
The passage in query begins by saying “some teens live in their own world”.
It states: “Quite a few causes may be discovered for this example, however of first significance is clearly the dearth of parental authority within the family. This, greater than a century in the past, the custom of the husband being the grasp of his personal family. The spouse gave him formal obedience, realizing that on this his authority depended, in flip, on the youngsters… ”
It states: “Only by accepting her husband’s influence could she attain obedience from a young age. The decision may have been his but the unpopularity was his, and more easily he could not have been in it. To the laws of submission he has thus added the mighty force of an example. In this way the children and the servants were taught to know their place.”
It added: “Children became fewer in the twentieth century and were the result of feminist rebellion.”
It later says: “The Word of the Father no longer had the authority of the Holy Writ and the Bible itself was carried to a high shelf that was absolutely unsuitable for youth. Why should women accept their subordinate role? Why Well? His claim of equality was accepted with some hesitation…”
The conclusion is that “the emancipation of the wife destroyed the authority of the parents over the children”.
This is the second controversy within the final two weeks based mostly on the CBSE Term 1 query paper. The first was after the Class 12 sociology examination when CBSE issued a public apology and described the query as an “error”: “Under which government did the unprecedented level and spread of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat take place in 2002?”
In response to the studies, the board had additionally issued a notification that it could contemplate feedback on “ambiguity in questions and discrepancy in answer keys”.
,
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
