Tamso Maa Jyotirgamya 1

Tamso Maa Jyotirgamya !!

Summer Fields School Parents' Association (Regd)1

Who is to be blamed…An Introspective view of tormenting

parents


Education in Schools

A Brief Overview


India has the largest student population in the world with over 13.5 Cr pupils in primary education, followed by China at over 12.1 Cr. at this level.

A Brief Overview


Some 27% students go to private schools today

The average teacher-student ratio in India is 1:42 as compared to 1:25 globally

Shortage of schools currently led to provide education to larger student population

This gap provides ample opportunity to private schools to exploit parents

The Gaps: Indian Scenario


• Lack of Policies and laws related to Education

• The Education Act is silent on major issues like fees, Infrastructure in schools, teacher student ratio, Involvement of parents in PTA through democratic process

• Political nexus of school authorities leading to arbitrary approach by the management

• Observatory role played by the Education Department

The Ground Realities


• Today an average parent spends about half a lakh annually on their wards to get so called “education” from private schools in India

• The private schools are increasing fees arbitrarily, inspite of having surplus funds in their kitty.

• There is No Independent Agency to check the malpractices of the private schools.

• The school funds are diverted to purchase “assets” for personal use by the management



The schools flout all norms as laid by government like providing education to economically weaker sections of the society



• The education cases in courts related to fee hike & other malpractices by schools are delayed because of political pressures

• The Judges of the Hon. Courts do not have courage to penalize the govt. or school’s counsel’s, who waste the precious time of the judiciary by not coming on hearing dates, thereby lingering the whole process

• The very own government’s party representatives fight against the poor parents in the court and our government says that they are “pro-poor”

So….


What is the Solution?

Framework


The solution lies in our hands….Let’s mark these points and awake our country’s representative from their deep slumber

Have proper Education Law and rules for the private schools in the country

Let the act provide structure, system and process for private schools

Points to be highlighted


• Uniformity in fee structure for all private schools

• Participation of parents in PTA of the school• Independent monitoring agency for the

schools to check malpractices• Guidelines for school to maintain

Infrastructural requirements• Penalty for schools for not abiding the

guidelines

Points to be highlighted


Guidelines for Directorate in not only framing of the policies but having “quasi judicial” role to tame the errant schools

Accountability to the Dy. Director of the region and penalty for non performance or noncompliance of rules & regulations

Escalation process and time frame for complaint redressal

In the End• With the true meaning of “Tamso Maa Jyotirgamya”, we too can come out of darkness and contribute with whatever way we can.• Let’s join hands and do whatever possible we can do to stop the malpractices in our education system• You can send your feedback to us at

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Tamso Maa Jyotirgamya 1

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