69 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 25 May \ on: The Problem with Public Schools Education
In India the problem is that, public schools are like shops or businesses just wanting to earn money. They don't care if students learn or not. Even the teachers are highly underpaid. However the fees are very high. To be precise, they charge around $500 annually from one student and they easily can have 1000 students. So, the fees accumulates to $500000. And such schools have a staff of 50 people who are paid on a average an amount of less than $2000 annually. Hardly $100000 annually for everyone. So, they make 70% to 80% profits every year.
That's wild!
Where does that money go? Is it essentially a tax on parents?
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This money goes to the school owner and these people don't have to pay taxes to government as there's no tax on Educational businesses.
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Those are private schools, then. "Public" school is a euphemism for government run schools.
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We call private schools 'public schools' and government schools are just 'government schools'.
Okay, there may be some misunderstanding due to language constraints but the co dition of government schools in India is very poor. In fact, most schools don't have good infrastructure and sufficient teachers.
Yes, one thing is good that government teachers are paid 10 times more than private a.k.a. public school teachers.
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