In business of Education

with the beginning of new academic year begins the woes of parents. After paying huge amounts in the name of term fee, special fee, admission fee apart from tuition fee and so on, there comes yet another hurdle of buying uniforms and stationary.

Be it brown sheet or a pair of shoes everything has to be bought from stalls set up by schools. Earlier only tie, belt and badge had to be purchased from school as every school has a distinct design. Now-a-days every other requirement has to be fulfilled from school only.

These schools either set up stores in their premises or else they have collaboration with some store. Parents are directed to buy from either of these places where the price fixed is exorbitant. For these managements education has become a business where returns are way too high.

Anything bought from outside is a strict no-no. They just won’t accept the outside stuff. If one visits stores elsewhere not only these items are offered at much cheaper rate, but also getting a discount is an added advantage. Poor parents are bearing it silently. They don’t dare to question the management. Neither do they take help from cops.

In spite of knowing that if a complaint is lodged with the police the school management will be booked nobody comes forward to do so. The fear of losing admission stops them from questioning managements or approaching the police. Dreading the biased attitude of school management towards the child nobody reports such incidents. Police personnel are unaware of such incidents as they don’t receive any complaint. Unless and until someone lodge a complaint police is also helpless. These silent bearers have to come forward against these school managements who have made education a commodity. Do you really want to waste your hard earned money this way?