The Doon Mozaic (Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand) Hypocrisy in Education System of Uttarakhand | Page 10

It’s a bitter truth and a universal paradox that even though we have succeeded in
upgrading our standard of living yet, we are strained to lose our morals. In spite of
raging against the corruption all their lives, parents are compelled to bribe the
school authority to ensure that their child's future goes in absolutely safe hands. It’s
ironic that at an instance, we look up to government system that is committed to
serve for the people, making new laws, launching different schemes for every socie-
ty to ensure the high standard of living and at the same time it has allegedly failed to
raise the standard of the education system that is under its direct control.
The government school employees do not
themselves put their child in the same school
chain which they have been devoted to in
their jobs at the farthest errand of the hilly
state in order to serve to the children in the
isolated area. They prefer educating their chil-
dren from a private school that in turn has
very smartly taken advantage of the common
mindset of the people about the government
schools, charge them heavily. They in fact,
fail to understand that some way or the other,
they (govt. school teachers) are directly re-
sponsible for the sub standard of the educa-
tion in their respective states. I wonder how the conscience of the people who serve
the government to educate the children of this holy land, marking themselves as the
messenger of the goddess Saraswati allows them to bribe private schools for the
admission of their children. Education system of Uttarakhand is most affected by the
changing mindsets of the common people, and craving of the private schools who have
turned the holy practice of education into a corrupt filthy business for money. The other
thing that drives my mind to this issue is that a very harsh law against the donation and
interviews in school for the admission of the children has already been enforced by the
government under the section 13(2) of the Right to Education Act. The act states that-
no school or person while admitting a child can collect any capitation fee and subject
the child or parents or