Private Tuition!

West Bengal government has conducted a survey on private tuitions at school levels.Survey reveals, as expected, private tuitions have proved indispensable to the students. In fact, students can’t think of going in for examinations without taking private coaching. Even the toppers admit they’ve taken tuitions in each and every subject and sometimes they’ve engaged more than one tutors in some subject. Pupils say tuition’s necessary for better understanding of the subject that help them make better performance in examinations. Guardians too don’t grudge spending on private tuitions to the best of their financial ability. Sometimes, they spend as much as 20% of their total monthly income.
The revelation’s sad but true. It’s sad because it puts a big question mark on the role of educational institutions vis-à-vis this parallel education or private tuitions. Salaries of teachers and non teaching staff have considerably increased, so now cores of rupees are spent to run these institions.That apart, students have scanty regard for teaching in schools as they have private tutors to bank upon. Perhaps, besides providing employments, these institutions have no significant role to play. Now things have come to such a pass, the present trend can in no way be reversed to make students more dependent on teaching in schools than on private tuitions. So government is likely to wash its hands of this matter and let the situation drift in its own course!