All flock to the private schools to pay any amount demanded by the schools in the interest of their children.Parents do not complain openly and complain to various bodies in private talks. Private institutes have also unreasonably resorted to taking all sorts of fees. Admission fee is taken every year. Low quality clothes are sold to the students at exhorbitant price. Students are asked to purchase uniform from a particular shop. Computer fee, sports fee, library fee, the list goes on but the institutes do not provide any of the facilities for which fee is taken. There is different dress for particular day to make the business profitable. School bag, exercise books are also supplied. In the present scenario the AMSU has taken up the issue. It is good specially for the poor students. The government is not taking any initiative. Schools are converted to market complex, post of security personnel etc. Government schools are not maintained properly and numbers of teachers exceed numbers of students in most schools. The government should take up some measures to save the government institutues. It is shameful that the Education directorate allows schools to be established adjacent to government schools. Such schools do not conduct morning assembly or have playground. Students are packed in a composite complex bereft of any space for extracurricular activities Government acts only when pressurised. Common syllabus or common textbook was taken up after stir by students. The attention of all concerned is now called for to look into the matter and to find immediate solution. Should the school concerned be given the power and authority to select the textbooks of their choice will this controversy end? Imposing the same syllabus for all schools be it private or Government is a good decision, which will go a long way in caring up the dying Government schools neglected by the people of the state. The people of the state have shown the tendency of avoiding Government schools these days, which can be checked with the implementation of common syllabus. The thought that those in the Government will also learn the same as to taught to the students in the costly private schools makes all people happy. Equal education for all students it seems is the motto the new common syllabus seek to provide. But the reality tells otherwise.
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