Abominable Business of Private Schools? Syed Afraz Ali Nazish I نجی درسگاہوں کے مکروہ کاروبار

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A private school is a private business or nonprofit entity that offers or conducts full-time instruction with a full complement of subjects at the elementary, middle, or high school level.

Nonprofit colleges are schools that channel funds from tuition and fees into educational programs. They also receive support from state and federal governments, endowments, and donations. Public and private institutions can both be nonprofit entities.

THE late 1970s and the early 1980s saw the emergence of private schools in our country. These schools were founded by some businessmen and were established on the basis of profit maximization. These individuals were encouraged by the deteriorating standard of government schools. Their objective was to establish such schools where quality education would be provided and they would also be a great source of revenue generation.
These people had no intention of increasing the standard of education or improving the literacy rate of the country. They were mere businessmen, seeking an opportunity to make money and profits. These businessmen, over the years, have formed a group that can undoubtedly be called ‘the private school mafia.’
The opening of private schools has created a great divide in our society. The standard of government schools has deteriorated to such an extent that one cannot even imagine sending one’s children for studies.
The private schools, on the other hand, are so expensive that a common man cannot afford to enroll his child in these schools. The private schools claim to provide good-quality education. However, over the past few years, all these tall claims by the owners of these private schools have proved wrong.
This is because the owners of these schools know that the lower class can’t afford these schools, and most of the middle and upper class will have no choice but to go for the private schools.

Therefore, these schools have formed an oligopoly, which exploits consumers (students) by charging higher fees and not providing the desired quality of education. I have seen numerous examples of private schools where teachers can’t even speak a single sentence of English properly, especially at the primary level. Moreover, students are treated more as customers than pupils. In one incident, three students beat their PE teacher in one of the most renowned private schools in the country.

No action was taken against them as the principal claimed that their expulsion could be a loss of revenue for the school.

Education has become a product, the teachers have become salespersons and the students are customers. Moreover, studying in private schools has become more of a status symbol. In the beginning, when these schools were established, people belonging to educated families used to admit their children to these schools. However, nowadays it is observed that most of the children who study in these schools belong to families of businessmen, landlords, and the social elite, who boast about themselves studying in these schools and look down upon government school students, despite the fact that they might totally flunk in their academic life.
It is high time that the government focused on allocating a higher amount of budget to education, reducing their useless overspending on defense. The army should strive to compete with the rest of the world in terms of education which can reap healthy long-term benefits. Moreover, some strict measures must also be taken to reduce this unfair exploitation done by the private schools.
The private schools, which are doing business, are ruining the students’ and teachers’ lives. It is sad to note that private schools which have become a big business in Pakistan, refused to pay their teachers during the lockdown, citing great losses and lack of funds, despite receiving regular fees from parents each month.
Secondly, after knowing the truth about private schools of Turbat, it compelled me to highlight the issue which the students are facing.
“It is incomprehensible, especially for me to understand what teachers teach in the class because more than 50 students are in the same class in which I am,” quoted Shah Jan Baloch student of 9th class in a private school Turbat.

Keeping a distance is a vaccine during the Covid-19 pandemic that prevents spreading the virus; but sadly, some private schools’ administrations have given more value to the money rather than children's precious lives. In fact, in one room, they have compelled more than 40 or 50 students to stay, even though it is a risk during the pandemic. They open the admissions for newcomers despite having no proper space for the students in their classrooms.


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