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Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
You should go to the fiitjee centre (eg Kalu Sarai) and observe all the functions for yourself, before you admit your children. If your kids are being taught by a teacher in one of these coaching institutes – you better go and talk to the teacher regularly and ensure that his/her salary is paid, he/she is treated with dignity/respect in the institute, he/she is not subjected to abuse/humiliation/violence by the immediate “managers”. All the parents must regularly talk to the teachers to ensure that these institutes’ managers comply with the rules for basic human behavior, ie the managers must be held accountable: and this is what makes education possible, this is what makes it possible for the teacher to maintain discipline, ensure accountability from students and impart knowledge.
Unfortunately, violence has been occurring – abuse and physical violence occur in the centres – certainly so, for more than a decade. It’s also happening in Kota.
It’s not just a simple money problem or a business model problem – where percentages can be tweaked and then, things become OK.
It’s a problem with ethics – poor ethics everywhere. It’s how a lot of people have entered a system that was functioning efficiently, undermined it completely — and made a lot of profits doing nothing, while those who worked properly, efficiently, intelligently got short-changed…those who misused the system and got promotions, did that using social media methods – eg orkut, Quora, Facebook, reddit,…
praising themselves using captive students, and enhancing their own popularity.
People in a group used this tactic to promote each other – instead of actually doing a lot of teaching or quality work. Many of these got themselves promoted in this way, and started becoming “center heads” or other key people – and then they started to build their own groups, favorites. People who did actual work or even tried to do any real work – got thrown out in the process or got shifted into low pay positions. However, the bulk of the original content was created by these people…and in financially difficult circumstances, as it happened during covid and after, the productive people got thrown out first or they left…
If you don’t renew the content, it doesn’t work….because there is a lot of competition, and the creators had left. So, after a few years, the whole thing collapsed.
You should go to the fiitjee centre (eg Kalu Sarai) and observe all the functions for yourself, before you admit your children. If your kids are being taught by a teacher in one of these coaching institutes – you better go and talk to the teacher regularly and ensure that his/her salary is paid, he/she is treated with dignity/respect in the institute, he/she is not subjected to abuse/humiliation/violence by the immediate “managers”. All the parents must regularly talk to the teachers to ensure that these institutes’ managers comply with the rules for basic human behavior, ie the managers must be held accountable: and this is what makes education possible, this is what makes it possible for the teacher to maintain discipline, ensure accountability from students and impart knowledge.
Unfortunately, violence has been occurring – abuse and physical violence occur in the centres – certainly so, for more than a decade. It’s also happening in Kota.
It’s not just a simple money problem or a business model problem – where percentages can be tweaked and then, things become OK.
It’s a problem with ethics – poor ethics everywhere. It’s how a lot of people have entered a system that was functioning efficiently, undermined it completely — and made a lot of profits doing nothing, while those who worked properly, efficiently, intelligently got short-changed…those who misused the system and got promotions, did that using social media methods – eg orkut, Quora, Facebook, reddit,…
praising themselves using captive students, and enhancing their own popularity.
People in a group used this tactic to promote each other – instead of actually doing a lot of teaching or quality work. Many of these got themselves promoted in this way, and started becoming “center heads” or other key people – and then they started to build their own groups, favorites. People who did actual work or even tried to do any real work – got thrown out in the process or got shifted into low pay positions. However, the bulk of the original content was created by these people…and in financially difficult circumstances, as it happened during covid and after, the productive people got thrown out first or they left…
If you don’t renew the content, it doesn’t work….because there is a lot of competition, and the creators had left. So, after a few years, the whole thing collapsed.