By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Nov 27: Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui on Thursday rejected the growing criticism surrounding the CM IMPACT Guidebook, saying it was misleading to suggest that the guidebook would harm students or replace prescribed textbooks.
He explained that the CM IMPACT material was never intended to function as a textbook but only as an additional aid.
Rymbui said it was wrong for anyone to claim that the guidebook would negatively affect students, since the CM IMPACT Guidebook is not a prescribed textbook.
He clarified that prescribed textbooks already cover all required subjects—Mathematics with its formulas, language textbooks with their stories, English literature texts, grammar, essays, health education and other components of the curriculum.
These, he said, are the materials teachers use daily to teach and students use to learn.
He stressed that the guidebook was merely an additional resource meant to help students practice what they had already learned from their prescribed textbooks.
According to him, the guidebook’s purpose was to allow students to check whether they could apply the knowledge gained in class, which would ultimately help them prepare better for their examinations.
