Privatisation is good.

I consider myself lucky, for the numerous times I get daily to interact with people from all walks of life.
I love listening to their hopes and dreams of a better-off tomorrow for them and their kids. But heeding to their anxieties and despair isn’t much of a luxury. Moreover I know, in such an occasion my best effort to soothe relight the flame of hope in them doesn’t always pay off.

Recently a lot of people especially parents of have approached me both personally and via phone. They were filled with uncertainty and fear about government’s announcement of privatizing government school.

This post is dedicated to our parents. Dear Moms and Dads. Believe me. Privatization is just fine.

First and foremost, I agree with you. Transferring schools from auspices of the government to a private enterprise means you have to pay your hard earned money for your children’s education. We aren’t quite sure how much, but it’s certain we would have to pay and that’s something many parents aren’t used to.

It’s never tempting to forfeit what you have been getting for free and opt to pay a price for it. Wait just a minute! How much are you already paying for your kid’s education? Yes!! More than a majority of the parents do pay hefty bucks not to the school, but as tuition fees. I personally know more than a dozen of students who get tutored for 500rf per subject.

When I was a student, I yearned for air-conditioned rooms with multi-media projectors where the student to teacher ratio doesn’t leave any kid ignored or unattended. Seriously, how cool it would be to email my assignments to the respective teacher instead of carrying in all the way? I wonder how many papers and ultimately trees would be saved.

Moving on, do not be victimized by the skepticism that private school will have a debasing effect on the child’s discipline. For it’s so untrue. In fact integration of ill or favorable discipline into the childs’s character is not determined by whether the kid goes to a nationalized school or a privatized school. What bears testimony to this the reported cases of crime committed by student studying at government school, during and after school hours.

The presence of a responsible monitoring body in this case the government, will prevent privatized school or other institutions from squeezing out the wealth of the public. Furthermore, the laws and regulations they must follow and abide by will not only make the privatized school more regulated but also will make them accountable.

By proposing the concept of privatization the government is asking us to believe in something unheard and unseen by many. But let’s not forgot that there is a big world beyond our shallow lagoons and far across the oceans and there are countries which have been through this modern day experience of privatization and discovered it be very fruitful.

So privatization is good. Just have a little faith.