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5. ​ A school does not open the computer lab because there is no teacher who can
operate the computer in order to teach the subject to students.
6. When a 9th class student was not able to perform well in the class, the teacher
called her poor father and suggested that he should send his daughter to attend
private tuitions.
The father was obviously shocked and wondered if he has to pay for private
education, then why are the government teachers being paid their salaries?
7. ​ The mother of a primary school student was painfully worried to know from her
son that instead of teaching in the class, the school teacher is always busy on her
mobile phone.
The mother concluded that the teacher, who is being paid with public money, mostly
relishes Hindi film songs with the mobile phone wire in her ears. However, the
mother was so scared of the teacher that she could not complain.
8. I met the principal of a government school and asked him why he is not able to
stop the students who cross barbed wires to regularly abscond from the school. The
principal told me that he is too scared to stop the students as the belligerent students
can attack him.
9. When I asked the principal of another school to change the syllabus and teaching
methodology in order to make the students employable, the principal told me that
she cannot do it because this is the responsibility of her bosses in the education
department.
10. ​ In a meeting with government school students and teachers, an MLA (Member of
the Legislative Assembly) in Delhi told poor students that the education quality in
their school is so good that soon the students of a popular private school (which is in
front of the government school) will come to take admission in that government
school. It did not happen even after 2 years because the politician was telling a lie in
order to cheat innocent school children.
There are many more such troubling incidents...
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