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Do huge buildings have any connection to quality education?
Mushroom growth of pvt schools in J&K:
1/2/2012 12:24:23 AM
Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Jan 1: The J&K has been witnessing a mushroom growth of private schools. Everyone seems to be in the race to open a school. Grand buildings have come up and hefty tuition fee is extracted from parents, but can anyone tell if these have any connection to quality education?
Of course, not. Many of these schools are not bothered about quality. You check a notebook of English, or maths of any student and you get the answer. Mistakes continue to be there.
The owners of most of these schools come from business families. They are concerned about the strength of students and not about who is teaching what. They charge hefty tuition fee, building fund and many other funds which otherwise they are not supposed to take.
Parents have a point when they ask why they should pay for the construction of the building which does not belong to them and which is the property of someone else. But still they pay it because others are also paying.
The managements of these schools indulge in all types of exploitation of students but the authorities, who are supposed to keep a check on them, do not raise any objection. There are varied reasons for it.
Everyone thinks of opening a school. Reason: This has become the most lucrative business nowadays.
Huge amounts of money are charged as admission fee and monthly tution fee, but hardly any emphasis is laid on grooming children as good citizens and equip them with quality education.
Admission fee is charged once at the time of admission of a child to the school but promotion fee is charged every year after he gets to the next class. This is the height of exploitation. "This is like looting parents," remarked Sudhanshu, whose son studies in one such school.
But this loot continues unchecked with impunity from law. The officers concerned have never bothered to take notice of this open loot because children of many of them are studying almost free in these schools.
These schools have also opened uniform shops. The rates of the uniforms and track suits sold by them are much higher than the market rates. The school managements get good commission from the private persons who run these shops.
When the new session starts, books, notebooks, erasers, pencils and many other stationery items are sold inside the schools at very high rates. There is commission in every sale.
Children studying in these schools also take private tutions. But when they score positions and distinctions in state education board, or NCERT exams, the school managements do not shy to claim credit for it.
If these "high-profile" institutions are really quality schools, why don't they ban private tution by their students? But they won't do so, because it was sure to adversely affect their results.
These schools do not have any mechanism to help students thrive in lives by developing independent work habits in them. Their curriculum lacks the basic thing of having realistic expectations from students according to their abilities.
Too often children and parents experience dissatisfaction and disillusionment. Parents
feel frustrated in their efforts to help their child succeed and find joy in learning. The general complaint is that several students hesitate to go to schools on many occasions because of the unfriendly attitude of some teachers who get unreasonable while giving them corporal punishment. Complaints against such teachers are not entertained.
In a nutshell, most of these institutions are mainly money minting houses. The government needs to keep a check on them. It should not close eyes to their wrongdoings and must act to stop the problem from aggravating further.
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