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Great education debate: will it create a revolution or social friction ?
Morung Express | IANS | New Delhi, April 15
The beginning of a revolution in education or a cloud on the autonomy of private institutions and a financial burden on the middle class? The Supreme Court judgment asking private schools to provide 25 percent seats to economically weaker sections (EWS) as per the Right To Education (RTE) act that guarantees education to every school going child in the country has split opinion right down the middle.
While private schools are frankly unhappy, education activists say the April 12 ruling is a great step towards equal opportunities for all. Parents are apprehensive about how it will work out and many wonder if this will lead to social friction in the classrooms and school buses. “There is nothing wrong in giving education to the underprivileged, but then the government should reimburse the entire tuition fee or else it will become a financial burden on us,” Madhulika Singh, principal of Delhi’s Tagore International School, told IANS.
Some schools in Kolkata believe it would be better if they are not included in the list of government ‘aided’ institutions and are ready to bear the extra financial burden rather than take government aid to subsidise poor students that they will have to take under the Right to Education act.
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