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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The importance of government schools in India

The importance of government schools in India

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published Published on Sep 3, 2019   modified Modified on Sep 3, 2019
-The Indian Express

What can government schools do? Make democracy work.


If you are reading this piece, it is likely your child goes to an English-medium private school. Did the possibility of a government school occur to you? Did you consider it before deciding on the private school?

When I pose this question to my friends, this is the usual refrain: “But they are of such poor quality, insufficient classrooms, inadequate teachers. The school teaches in the local language, not English. Why would anybody in their right mind send their child to such a school? Government schools are not for people like us; wahan gareeb ke bachche jaate hain (Poor people’s children study there).”

This narrative, fuelled by mainstream media and a large number of neo-liberal voices in civil society, has become so dominant that any experience or evidence to the contrary has little chance of a hearing.

At Azim Premji Foundation, every day, our teams go to government schools that are off the radar, in the deserts of Rajasthan, the mountains of Uttarakhand, the tribal belt of central India, and in many other parts of the country. This continuous on-the-ground engagement with thousands of teachers and others, year after year, has given us a deep insight into the methods and motivations of the government school system. These experiences are often at variance with the popular pejorative narrative and need telling.

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The Indian Express, 1 September, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/the-school-for-everyone-5951428/?fbclid=IwAR2Gnb-EpuvB0pK4jW2aZqQ4kGuMTmRNqjkQ1FtW6MefwgZyyVLxyhx4y7c


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