The Beaconhouse School System has withdrawn Punjabi Foul language circular after the controversy.
Earlier, Beaconhouse Sahiwal Boys Campus in a circular warned students to take disciplinary action policy on speaking Punjabi within and outside the school premises and termed it as ‘foul language’.
In a statement today (Wednesday), the Beaconhouse School System has maintained that the circular was issued by ‘mistake’ and management had withdrawn the circular with immediate effect.
Read: Beaconhouse School Sahiwal Campus terms Punjabi as ‘foul language’
The Beaconhouse statement read as
“The headmaster only intended to stop students from using Punjabi swear words, but he did not phrase the sentence right in the notification… The word ‘curses’ was inadvertently missed by Headmaster Jamil Ahmed. This is because cursing in Punjabi is a specific issue with a few older boys at Jamil’s branch in Sahiwal. He did not understand that his sentence structure implied that all of Punjabi was a foul language. Indeed, such an interpretation would never have occurred to him because he himself is a proud Punjabi-speaking Punjabi, as are half of our students and teachers,”
A notification of the school emerged on the social media, drawing criticism terming Punjabi “Foul language”
