Playing with the future of over 2000 students : Commodifying education
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: February 28, 2015 -

Commodifying education and taking people for a ride. Complement this with an ignorant lot of people, obsessed with only marks and the result is writ large on the fate of over two thousand students who are yet to receive their admit card for the Class X and Class XII final examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education.

Not likely that the students will receive their admit cards now. Remember the Class X and Class XII final examinations are set to kick off from March 2. Practical exams for Class XII Science students under the said board is already over.

Maybe this is not the first time that students have been placed in such an uncertain phase, but more than likely that this is the first time that over two thousand students have been placed in such a precarious situation.

Most probably the over two thousand students will lose an academic year.

Losing an academic year may not mean much for this need not be the end of everything for the students, but it is definitely a set back in the academic pursuit of the students.

Not difficult to say how situation has come to such a pass.

It is common knowledge that down the years a good number of schools have earned a dubious distinction.

These dubious distinction obviously attract students and parents, guardians and students themselves and this is something demonstrated by the fact that numerous students make a beeline for these institutions come exam time.

Good marks without having to work for it is the attractive package that has been dangled before the parents and guardians.

Plus there are institutions which have promised everything to the parents, guardians and students, without getting recognition from the CBSE.

It is students from these schools who are today facing the music.

Peddling marks under the name of education. This is what some of these institutions have been up to.

Difficult to believe that parents and elders of more than two thousand students would be so naive as to admit their children to these institutions without checking their background.

If the Government has been taken to task for the deteriorating level of education in Government run schools, then it is more than obvious that there are individuals who will not hesitate to make a quick buck by compromising with the future of the young children.

Unacceptable it is. Not the time for the Government to wash its hands off and merely watch the unfolding drama.

The guilty persons should be booked and penalised according to law. Parents and guardians too should be educated on what education is all about.

More than sure that there are other institutions which have not been exposed as yet, but such a practise has to be stopped.

The CBSE too should come down heavily on those elements who have been making a mockery of education in their name.

The future of over two thousand students seems to have been jeopardised and it is right that corrective measures are taken up to neutralise the jokers who have been minting money in the name of education.