They claim to be institutions offering purposeful education when, in fact, they are only money-making enterprises
KHUZDAR: Many private schools have been established all over the country, but most don’t seem to be providing quality education. The tall claims of some of these private schools are quite fascinating. They claim to be institutions offering purposeful education when, in fact, they are only money-making enterprises. I have visited many such schools and I found that their motive was not to enlighten the younger generation but to loot their parents. It is infuriating to find pupils being taught by unlearned, de-motivated and reactionary teachers.
Quality education is a distant dream; students are not receiving basic and compulsory education. That is why the poor don’t believe in education and curse it due to the ineptness of policymakers, low job salaries, and lack of employment opportunities. The poor instead enroll their children in madrassas, which do not always equip the youth to survive in the modern world with dignity. Private schools are damaging the future of our younger generation. I request the government to take punitive action against those who claim to provide quality education but are only in the field to mint money.
Rehan Rind
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2015.
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