‘Textbook-free Friday’ initiative welcomed but also doubted

Teachers at community schools voice fear the plan may disrupt academic environment.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has come up with a ‘textbook-free Friday’ drive and asked community schools in the Capital to implement it. As part of the pilot project, students in 56 community schools of the city’s 89 schools, will be going to school on Fridays without books or bags, learn essential life skills and engage in other extracurricular activites.