Private Profiteering Schools – Negative Impact On My Children
                     Private Profiteering Schools – Negative Impact On 
My Children
B.K Vijay 
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When I was a kid, I studied in a private school in my neighborhood and spent 
most of my time in a fun way of learning. My school has become a second 
home to me and I felt blessed as it gave me a good platform to do better in life 
and builds my personality. My sweet memories about my school, friends, 
teachers, and the lessons are revolving around me even now, bringing 
confidence and faith to face challenges in life. My dad often acknowledges my 
school as one of the best in our locality for its affordability and quality 
education.
In this modern competitive industrialized world, people need a good education 
to survive. The main goal of schooling is “Training the kid” to develop good 
habits, helping them learn various subjects and bringing them up in a 
structured and systematic manner. Schooling is both the means and as well as 
the end to a better life because it prepares the kid for their livelihood and 
makes school kids aware of everything from healthcare, individual rights, and 
duties, social behavior, helping evolve them as better citizens. Choosing a 
certain type of school for your child sets their foundation for life. Schooling is 
an important part of proper upbringing.
Now, as a parent when I ask myself, whether I am satisfied and content with 
the fee and the quality of schooling when my child goes to private school? The 
answer is a ‘big No’, due to the following reasons.
Government subsidy benefits not reaching parents: Many of the services 
provided by private schools like transportation, catering, security, 
housekeeping, food services, etc., are not taxed under GST.  Parents are 
concerned and have developed an opinion that private schools charge 
exorbitant fees circumventing the law to earn more profits. GST is not 
applicable and has subsidized municipal taxes too. While the Indian 
government and society have given various benefits to school to keep the 
school fees low. In reality, these benefits have not been passed on to parents 
and lower costs have been misused for higher profit margins by schools.
Untrained teachers in the workforce : Teachers are the role models not only 
imparting knowledge but also help set the child on the right path. As a teacher 
their role in the classroom, society, and the world are large, they have a lot of 
responsibility for molding students in the right direction. Many private schools 
have an uneven quality of teachers. They lack adequate qualifications, 
temperament, training, and certification to perform their roles.
Carrying heavy books – a burden to kids: Is your child carrying too much 
weight in a backpack? Private schools make money through books and 
stationery. Additional workbooks are another way of earning money. Further 
visible symbols of quality like superior quality textbooks help schools create 
the right impression but these books use thicker and heavier paper. The 
workbooks increase the number of books and higher-quality books adding up 
the weight of the school bags. These heavy backs affect children’s spine and 
back causing long term ill – effects like growth deformities.
Absence of alternate choices to profiteering schools: There are no alternative 
private schools in some localities with affordable fee structure and a decent 
quality of education. So, other than expensive private schools, parents have no 
practical choices.
Problems with ultra-strict corporate schools: Another issue with corporate 
schools in the ultra-strict school teachers and administrators. Since, these are 
chains of institutions, they value teachers or administrators who can 
administer the school as per structure. The franchisor of the school just 
circulates some formats that the teachers/administrators need to follow.  
These corporate schools’ rigid policies impose unneeded punishment for minor 
issues with student behaviors and a constant threat of suspension or expulsion. 
In reality, these policies increase the bad behavior of students. The lack of 
proper mindset in teachers in handling such non-perfect students under their 
care is another failure of the school to modify the behavior of young children 
in the right direction.
Most private schools lack customization to student talents: Despite tall 
claims, private schools don’t customize their teaching and program according 
to student’s needs and talents. Schools just run activities as templates provided 
by franchisor or 3rd party programs common for all students which fail to 
develop their potential and talents due to one-size fit all approach to teaching. 
Plus, for those who are not excelling in academic areas but are extremely 
talented in creativity, art, music, and sports activities – there may be no 
opportunity to develop those talents.
Private school education ‘for profiteering’: By law profiteering is not allowed 
for educational institutions. In fact, in some states like Telangana – profiteering 
is a criminal offence as per the Education act.  However,  the perception of 
parents is somewhere the implementation is not there. Every regulation 
invariably is aggressively contested in court and for some reason – the policies 
are not framed to withstand scrutiny of law. Even those that are upheld in 
court, for some reason have lax implementation.
Many private schools charge reasonable school fees, providing quality 
education without abnormal profit margins. Their existence for decades in 
service of the public stands testimony to the fact that private schools can 
schooling affordable without compromising the quality of education.
Maybe kids going to private corporate schools will have memorable school 
days to but at the cost of making their parents poor and picking up many 
money-minded values and poor ethics.  Many children will not look up to their 
schools as sources of inspiration.  Unfortunately, due to neglect of private 
school fee regulation by powers that be, either by proper guidelines for 
calculating tuition fee or their proper implementation, educated middle-class 
parents are struggling financially.
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