How long before our Mother Tongue becomes extinct ?

HERD MENTALITY is what is mainly responsible for deterioration of our Mother Tongue i.e. Assamese or any other. These days most of parents like to enroll their kids into English Medium Schools which has mushroomed in the state in last few years. But what these parents fail to see that their HERD MENTALITY is making their child part of a herd rather than helping them to stand out of it.

Most of these so called English medium schools dont have proper playing ground, proper sanitation facility so on and so forth. So much so that some dont even have proper ceiling in the roof or if they have the roof is so close (i.e. height of the roof is so low) that kids in those school rooms are getting fried in summer season. Mainly because these schools are used by their owners as instrument for earning profit rather than doing social service.

These so called English medium schools have such strict rules that a kid has to stand outside of his/her class for entire duration of the day if he/she fails to pay his monthly fees in time.

Further, these schools burdens a child with so much work load that he/she forgets his/her creative side which I feel is like forcefully making a child mentally retarded.

Furthermore, most of the teachers of these so called English medium schools are under-qualified and treat their teaching jobs as just past time before he/she gets married and as result of which common rooms of these schools have become a virtual LOVE NEST. Think what will our coming generations learn from observing their teachers. Which is one of the main reason why our kids become sexually active in such a tender age (mobile, internet & cable tv along with parents inability to spend sufficient time with their kids are also partially responsible).Herein, I would also like to mention that chances of a kid becoming sexually active even in Quality English Medium School is much higher than that of a Local Medium Schools, the reason for this is most of the students of Quality English Medium Schools are very rich and bring with them all the modern gazets like Mobile (sometimes notepad also) etc. and these gazets are not always used for innocent purposes.

It may also be mentioned here that most of Local Language L. P. Schools although have infrastructure in place (many are lacking also) but does not have proper teaching staff. Most of the Teachers of Local Medium Schools got their job either by paying bribe or by some link. Although the condition of M. E., H. E. & H. S. Schools are much better.

Lack of proper infrastructure in some of Local Language Schools (primarily L. P. Schools) & their lack-luster attitude towards educating their students is also responsible why some parents choose/prefer to enroll their kids into English medium schools but what is interesting that to avoid lessor evil they are sending their kids to the hand of Monsters (Jail Warden). At least in Local Language Schools kids get the space to breath freely, involve themselves with their creative side or can just have a good time.

If you check the records of students who commit suicide due to pressure of study/exam are mostly from English Medium Schools !