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Personal letter of a failed student

\ I found this letter when I was clearing old dumps.  This was received by me around twelve years ago.  I reproduce this verbatim, with all the spelling and grammatical mistakes.  I have hidden the writer’s name and her personal details.  Please ignore the ‘wrong English’.  That is an unfortunate part of our education system.  She has been a student of ‘one of the so-called best and more sought-after schools in Chennai’ and in English Medium since LKG.  Primary education should be in Mother Tongue.  That will give a solid foundation of one language and one can learn and master any number of languages upon that foundation.  English medium is unnatural and will only produce persons poor in all the three languages being taught.  I have over 12,000 letters (Almost all from ‘best and popular schools’) written by students of 12 th class and over 90% are full of wrong English.  Kindly ignore the English part of this letter and try to read the ‘mind’ of an average student. Italics are m