In this report the writer has erroneously glorified private schools for their SLC success rate. A bit of calculation on the unit cost on private and public child would have told a very different story on why there was a divide.

The report tells me that private schools should survive because they have better pass rate. Is that all?

The public at large have a lot of resentment over how private schools are functioning. When Maoists talk of shutting down of the private schools, it goes well in the public. It has to do with how they are pocketing a huge sum of money without paying taxes and still getting away with it.

 The private school owners are now mere monetary elites.  Most of the ones who run hugely profitable business of running school [s] have contributed nothing in adding value to the curriculum or the quality of the text books. Instead, they have tied themselves up with big publication houses and forcing children buy the book of very less quality.

The writer has undertaken a task to please the private school owners but has been very insensitive to the popular notion.  I think impartiality is the key to bring changes through journalism which the writer has chosen not to agree with. Singing the songs for the educational moguls of the present day Nepal will make them happy but highlighting their wrongs could bring positive changes to Nepal's failing school education.

# 2 - The writer may have failed to give good reasons for why private schools be left alone, but it is not just not the pass rate why we need them. We need them because the public education system in the country is not at all at par. If anyone does not like the standard of education or any services provided by the private schools then they can always take their children out.

Regarding, the private school owners making money undermining quality: This is a question of regulations where the government needs to tighten its screw and this is where the Maoists and Com Lohani can come in to make sure that the private schools are providing what the people are paying them for. About text books and education standards - these are something the government can monitor. 

You can't stop people buying expensive cars when there are many cheaper models around. People who see the value of a commodity will pay for it as they deem fit. Same goes with education. If public schools provide better quality education then who will pay the private schools for their sub-standard or expensive product? Do you go screaming around that the expensive car manufacturers are cheating the public and forcing them to cough up more for a product that�s not worth it? What will you do next after the private schools are closed? Close all the private hospitals and nursing homes and forbid doctors from running their clinics because the quality of the public hospitals in the country sucks? Then after that will you say that all the private sector trading houses should close because salt trading is running at a loss?

Dear Reader,

First of all,all government or private run schools must be separated from the politics of any kind and most importanly it is not the teachers job,there is administration,parents and teachers executive commitees who bring forward needs ,interests and problems of the schools,who  interact with other schools in the community ,bring forward decisons made in classroom communities ,in school community.In the end of the day we need to consider needs of the children,schools are for the children eventhough the property may belong to somebody else.

I do agree that there is a huge discrepancy between private and government schools as there is a huge discrepancy between private and private schools.

I like to mention just few observed differences.

First of all physical structure of the buildings.Having beautiful ,huge buildings is not the reflection of quality education children should be receiving.Education  must be child centred.Many big reputated schools have nursery groups and children as young as 3  are sitting a whole day in the environment that is nothing to do with what the child requires and can do ,must do at this age.I do understand that parents of such children need to go to work and maybe it is the only way for them to teach their child,most of the parents of such children are looking up to teachers and have kept faith of their child's education in their hands,however I would like to add that schools which are having such small children need to re-think their curriculums and build age appropriate education ,with wide range of themes and variation of mediums to work in .

Most so called well of schools have lots of books in the libraries,big classrooms with computers ,however methods of teaching  specially at the primary level need to be improvized according to the age and interests of children.Such schools neeed to think about Multiple Intelligences of a child and give as much support and encouragement as possible,which is totally out of curriculums of most such private schools and it totally doesn't exist in government run schools.Government schools that are supported by a few very good private schools in Kathmandu and other parts of the country ,are the best examples of human individual responsibility towards the society as the citizens,but how much can we lay on such people's shoulders.

Ministry of Education must invite leaders of such schools to work in the Minuistry of Education,and my personal view is, fire all the staff who till now have been sitting in the Ministry and have not done even simple thing,have not worked out the simplest curriculums for kindergartens and primary level children.It is absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most importantly ,include in constitution the right to education for children of all walks and give free education to all the children who require such help.People need to learn to help themselves,just by asking free education without acknowledging importance of self is not going to help the child succeed because education is not just about letters and numbers.Nothing in life comes free is a reality ,you can not have food on the table without putting an effort or any empty promise  is not what is life about .

I will argue with any one and everyone who wants to deny or lessen the importance of private schools or government schools.

We need to be proud of and praise all those schools ,their leaders and children for their existence in the society.All private schools are the perfect example of how the school leaders perceive ,have understood and implemented their methods to give the children education they need,eventhough there is a lot of improvement to be done,but shutting them down is like putting blindhold on every ones eyes and telling ,now you walk and find the way out.

I totally agree that  each child has a right to good education and I totally support every private school which charges higher fees than usual and I will tell you why,however I as a parent or invester want to know where the high fees charged are used for.

Parents ,teachers and school leaders of such schools have taken charge of something what government has not done till now.They have understood that by giving little something into the big pot ,is helping many more children in the community.The work done by such schools is just praise worthy.

Together everyone achieves more, but not by looting together or killing together,by treatening together,it is by thinking and working together.

However the government again is not doing its job.Proper tax system would be able to support all government schools even without the help of foreign assistance.We need to choose the priorities and invest appropriately.Eventhough there exists some kind of tax,it is way off the reallity.One more important issue,every parent ,rich or poor must pay tax and be involved according to what one owns,land,property ,income tax,health insurence accordingly ,but not the way it is till now. Do you really think that school itself would be able to sustain,support other community schools in the community around if there was no help from all those parents whose children attend such schools.

I hope that wisdom will prevail and understood and most importantly government leaders in Ministry of Education will be  replaced with practitioners who have proved how it is possible ,with teachers who have wide range of knowledge and most importantly experience in teaching .Most importanly,listen to children ,they will teach you what they need to learn and let's not forget,children learn what they live.