Yet again the private schools while claiming to be the victims of so called “existential crisis” are though carrying out a vicious campaign to project the losses which they have not suffered at all in recent pandemic periods but they don’t dare to put the data about the tuition fee they have collected during last three years ogf pandemic for online classes from the gullible parents. While private schools don’t bother to share the data about the fee collected by them for the online classes during the pandemic periods, the school education department of the J&K Government is sharing data about the online classes government schools have conducted without charging fee from the students during three years of pandemic dominated by two successive lockdowns in last two years one after the other. While claiming the losses during pandemic periods private schools expect relief package like many pandemic hit industrial sectors as if they have conducted online classes free of cost during the recent pandemic periods. Ironically most of the proprietors of private schools are out on picnic at famed tourist destinations within and outside the country for the last more than three months as many of them are spending winter vacations in Dubai and Abu Dabi the famed world class tourist destination and several others have choosen to go out on a trip to Goa , Banglore and many such tourist destinations in different states of the country. Shedding crocodile tears about their so called “existential crisis” is by all standards of understandabilities just their ploy to continue exploiting gullible parents in the name of tuition fee time and again. As far as the reopening of schools for offline classes is concerned recently Delhi government sought the consent of parents but not the private schools on the key decision of reopening schools but unfortunately in Jammu & Kashmir the consent of parents is not sought for the purposes of even fulfilling a normal practice or a formality on reopening of schools.
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“Non regulation of fee for coaching centres has by all standards of understandabilities further the causes of inequalities in education the way unresolved crisis of infrastructural facilities at government schools has triggered the crisis of inequality in school education”.
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Recently demand of coaching centres for resumption of coaching classes was taken seriously and a decision to resume coaching classes with 50% attendance was taken without seeking any consent from the parents. However Government announcing a scheme for coaching of students in different coaching centres of repute outside Jammu & Kashmir has brought smiles on the faces of those students whose parents don’t afford the fee the private coaching centres charge from them in absence of fee regulation authority for coaching centres. Had the government extended the power and authority to regulate fee of coaching centres to Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee like the private schools, the private coaching won’t have become a burden for children of lower middle classes and a facility for the children of elite classes. Non regulation of fee for coaching centres has by all standards of understandabilities further the causes of inequalities in education the way unresolved crisis of infrastructural facilities at government schools has triggered the crisis of inequality in school education.
