Tuition Ban

Education is considered as the most powerful weapon of human life to get success. A teacher is the person who shapes the future of humans by providing the best education to his/her students. All professions are equally important, but teaching is the profession which has led people on the way to progress and prosperity. No development would have been possible if there had been no teacher’s profession. Teachers are the agents of the future. More than any other profession teaching has the power to create a healthy, just and peaceful world. It is also measured as a profession with the greatest responsibility. In the Indian education system free education is provided up to higher secondary level and there has been a tremendous rise of government sector schools in the country. Unfortunately learning levels have not shown any such improvement in government schools. This all has made education today not as the transmission of knowledge but a very successful trade. It is also a result of students taking private tuitions & paying heavy fees for the growth of the tuition industry. In addition to it are those parents who find it difficult to teach kids at home and hence are willing to spend money on tuition. Herein we feel that the purpose of government spending so much on the education sector gets defeated.

All this over these years has led to the rise of tuition culture in the country. Tuition culture in India now seems inseparable from normal school life. One of the major setbacks caused by the tuition system in India is the decline in quality of education at government schools. This in turn makes parents and teachers rely more on tuition than schools. In many cases it is the school teacher who also gives private tuitions after school hours. It is not all the teachers but a small group who are in this line and are hollowing such a noble profession. They all seem to be led by greed and motivated by prospects of easy money that that tuition business offers them. They for their monetary gains have subordinated their school duties. These teachers have lowered the quality of education in the classroom to swell their private classrooms. They finish only part of the syllabus in the classroom and generate demands for their own tuition outside the classroom. 

The state of Jammu & Kashmir is also affected by the ongoing trend of tuition these days. Though the menace is not new but yet now the govt has risen from slumber to take some steps to control it. The Jammu & Kashmir govt. has recently imposed a blanket ban on private tuitions by teachers serving in the government schools. The practice of private tuitions hurt those students who aspire for learning through regular schooling, as the teacher’s concerned fail to devote their full energy to class. The poor are the real sufferers who go to govt schools in J&K but at the end reach to a private tuition centre to get the education. If we go to the other side of this problem then we find that the salary of a teacher is barely sufficient in J&K in today’s time where rising prices have hit the working class to the maximum. Teacher fraternity in J&K is forced to take to the streets every year to demand their rights. From their monthly salaries to arrears to entitled increments or any other entitlements , teachers need to take to the streets as the J & K government doesn’t seem to react until there is  a hue and cry. Some teachers in J&K also allege that they go into tuition business as they respond to the demands of students and parents. But we can say that it should not be about demand rather it should be about what is right and what is wrong. If such a practice is allowed to continue, there will be a serious deterioration in maintaining the standard of education in the government schools in J&K. If a teacher in J&K is interested in developing his private tuition for the sake of earning more money then surely there would be a total decline in govt schools in J&K. They need to concentrate on imparting education to the students in regular working hours in the schools which would also raise the standard of education in government schools. Ban on private tuition would help in reducing large scale commercialization of education in J&K. It will also bring relief to students who are forced to attend tuitions from school teachers in order to get good marks in practicals in govt. schools. Main reason to ban private tuitions is a social injustice under which the teachers work after school hours evading their genuine responsibility of giving their best in the classroom. If we really want to change the whole situation we have to change ourselves & if possible give time to your kids and help them in studies at home.