माझी शाळा

Who We Are

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We are a PARENTS AND STUDENTS COLLABORATION OPERATED VOLUNTARILY.



The school year usually runs from mid September to mid June and all classes are held on Saturdays between 3:00 to 4:00 and 4:00 to 5:00 pm at the JCC center at 1775 Oak Tree Road Edison, NJ 08820

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For inquiries or if you are interested in enrolling your child(ren) in this school -

Please use the "Contact Us" box below to send a message, or email us at edisonshalla@gmail.com. For more information about the Edison Marathi Shalla and our volunteer teacher's team, please see the "About" tab. For enrolling your child (or children), please see the "Registration" tab.



OBJECTIVE

 

The main objective behind starting this shalla is to encourage our childeren to SPEAK in Marathi.

They should become capable of conducting meaningful conversations in Marathi, after finishing this Shalla. Reading and writing in the Devanagari script is also given significant importance. We should be mindful that our children are after all growing up in an environment and culture quite different from the one most of us grew up in. English is always going to be their first, and therefore the language of choice in all media of expression. It will be unrealistic for us to expect them to be prolific writers in Marathi. However, they can certainly be bilingual or trilingual, speaking English, Spanish (and/or French or German) and Marathi with equal ease.

 
Since they are growing up in an English speaking society they would obviously speak English like the locals (accent and composition). We strongly believe that if we continue to interact with them, at least partially, in Marathi, right from their early childhood, they will not only be able to speak Marathi effectively but speak it without any accent. They are also quite capable of learning the Devanagari script and read and write short essays, letters etc. We also hear that these days Marathi studies can be pursued in US Universities including some of the Ivy League ones.

 
Hence the efforts put in by the students and their parents (in addition to those of the teachers) may go well beyond merely achieving socio-cultural ambitions. 

Although our Shalla is based on the above beliefs, we also know (now from experience) that meeting the children for an hour a week is simply not enough to achieve these goals. We strongly urge and earnestly request all parents who share these objectives with us, to maintain some level of Marathi content in their daily home conversations. Also get involved with their homework.