Fight for the rights and struggle for the generations to come!

Fight for the rights and struggle for the generations to come

It was heartwarming to see the positive outcome of the parents struggle against the unjust increase in the fees of their kids studying in the private schools.

Silence has always been taken as for-granted in the human history and in case of no retaliation the wrong doers got the encouragement to do more evil in any form that suits them. Somehow in the light of geo-political scenario and socio-economic factors, we are getting ample courage as a nation to speak up piece of our mind and stand up tall against injustice in any form. The recent hype in the private school fee structures gave clear indications that a great portion of well deserved kids would be deprived of so called quality education.

We very well understand that Education provision is a business now and we respect this fact but every business has to be run through some basic business ethics and most important amongst those is taking care of the customers/consumers by facilitating them through getting realistic and just return on investments and offering relief and support to customers as and when possible. The private schools on the contrary have shown that these have single track strategy to loot the money of the parents who are pursuing desperately a better future for their next generation.

The in-trend private school groups are hardly few may be less than ten but have an un-written and hidden business alliance to monopolize the whole market. The decline of quality of education in government schools have further infuriated and worsen the situation and parents are bound to send their children to these private schools as it is being perceived that these schools qualified students would be given preference when it comes to their professional careers in the long run. It is because of an unfortunate fact that educational back ground is considered with preference of an institute and not the actual talent of the individual.

We should learn to fight for our rights and current spark shown by the parents of the school kids have clearly indicated that there would be a strong notion of rejection and un-acceptance by our Nation in general and especially by the educated community. It has sent strong vibes to the ruling government to do something serious about the two different standards of education in Pakistan, education has to be made affordable for all citizens of Pakistan and should not be the right of the elite class to have quality education. It can only be done by improving school's infra-structure, revising the pay scales of teachers and re-setting the curriculum to reflect our religious and social values combined with an eye on the modern education in the books we teach our next generations which would eventually be responsible for the betterment of our Country and long term progress on the way to become and strong economic power.

Let us decide today that we would bow down to the pressure tactics of anyone who is victimizing us by forcing us to accept their dictated terms on any matter. Hats off to the standoff by the parents in a fight to retaliate the un-just fee increase at private schools!