Tamil was made a compulsory subject for all schools running in the state from this academic year following a state government order in 2014.
Students from abroad and other states of the country are struggling to cope with the same, the Hindu reports.
“My wife and I do not speak a word of Tamil, but my son is now forced to study the language. If I was planning to live here, it would have been fine. But, I will be moving out of the city in a year or two. Even the teachers find it difficult to explain in Tamil to my son,” expressed Nihal, a Bengali who returned from United States of America only this year.
It is also learned that around half of the city's CBSC students have Hindi as their mother tongue.
The report also quotes a teacher from a CBSC school in Adyar as saying that explaining the language is difficult.
"Although I know Tamil well, I cannot explain the language in Hindi. If I try in English, the children find it very difficult,” the teacher said.
While some schools are exempted from the act under “specified category” as per the Right to Education Act, the other schools are mulling to introduce the language from class I.
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