Other day I went to a local public school for the admission of my nephew in his K.G class. On contacting the admission in charge of the school. I was shocked to learn that the admission test was merely a formality. The admission was to be granted on the basis of merit of the child but on the parent’s capacity to pay a fat capitation fee to the school. I felt extremely upset over this educational evil.
Our constitution grants right to education to all children but some of the private schools have commercialized education. It has remain for a privileged few. Every year they announced the dates of admission to various classes with great fanfare.
Advertisements are published in local daily newspapers. The interviews of the children and their parents are held. But what is the purpose of this ceremony? To assess the child ability? To assess the parent’s ability to help their ward in his/her study.
The real purpose is to assess the paying capacity of the parent’s. This drama goes on year after year. Child is rarely granted admission on the basis of his/her merits. It is always the parent’s capacity to pay a fat capitation fee to the school which prevails. The capitation fee maybe in cash or in kind.
A parent’s who runs a factory of fan’s is asked to provide fan’s for the classroom Another parent runs a marble shop. He is asked to supply marble for the flooring of the school building and this exploitation of the parent’s goes on.
But this year the government step into the eradication of this evil and to save the parent’s of those children who are on the basis of their merits, scored the high level of test. Their parent have not to pay any capitation fee nor to pay any other so called expenses of the school. The school will issue the bill of admission fees and other curriculum expenses.
Let us hope for the best possible results. The school will start engaging new teacher and lady teacher for best of imparting education to the children.
The curriculum activities will be enhanced for the school and their execution with great care and level of understanding.
Our constitution grants right to education to all children but some of the private schools have commercialized education. It has remain for a privileged few. Every year they announced the dates of admission to various classes with great fanfare.
Advertisements are published in local daily newspapers. The interviews of the children and their parents are held. But what is the purpose of this ceremony? To assess the child ability? To assess the parent’s ability to help their ward in his/her study.
The real purpose is to assess the paying capacity of the parent’s. This drama goes on year after year. Child is rarely granted admission on the basis of his/her merits. It is always the parent’s capacity to pay a fat capitation fee to the school which prevails. The capitation fee maybe in cash or in kind.
A parent’s who runs a factory of fan’s is asked to provide fan’s for the classroom Another parent runs a marble shop. He is asked to supply marble for the flooring of the school building and this exploitation of the parent’s goes on.
But this year the government step into the eradication of this evil and to save the parent’s of those children who are on the basis of their merits, scored the high level of test. Their parent have not to pay any capitation fee nor to pay any other so called expenses of the school. The school will issue the bill of admission fees and other curriculum expenses.
Let us hope for the best possible results. The school will start engaging new teacher and lady teacher for best of imparting education to the children.
The curriculum activities will be enhanced for the school and their execution with great care and level of understanding.
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