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110 sats \ 6 replies \ @Coinsreporter 6 Jul \ on: What If Public Schools Were Abolished? econ
I studied in a government school here. There was no fees at all. For those kids who were curious, the education was there. So, it was good for me as well.
Then, I became a teacher in public school. They are there only to make the owners richer. From uniform to tution fees, everything's so costly but the wages are so less comparing those in government schools.
Even, there's a rule here that every school has to teach 25% students whose father has low income (say a poor kid). And their tution fees will be paid by government. But almost no school adheres to this. Instead, they take fees from kids and also take from government.
I want that public schools in India should be abolished. If not all, certainly the fully private ones need to be reprimanded by dismissal.
You and I are just going to be on opposite sides of this one. I'm never going to support taking away choices from parents.
If the public schools are as bad as you say, why does anyone pay for them?
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You know the situation in here is quite different. Most of the parents currently has not been to a private school, but now they want to send their kids to these schools because they believe that private schools are the only schools where their kids can learn better. This may be a truth but I was talking about how they are taking too much fees and charges for everything.
More than one-third of the country' s population, around 480 million, is below 18 years. All schools are almost running at full capacity. They know that they can do whatever they want but the strength of students won't be lowering.
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It wouldn't surprise me to hear that there's a cultural issue of putting excessive pressure on parents to overspend on their kids' educations. We certainly have similar issues here.
I don't think the right answer is to have the government take away their options, though.
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I myself own a small private school in a village. So, I don't want that government take away the options but it certainly needs some improvements.
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