My thoughts ... The Education system in Maldives (1) - Privatization, A road to class differentiation ?

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Privatization a road to class differentiation ?

I ended up lucky to have been among the generations in Maldives that went to school with people from all classes, backgrounds and moral standards ... I had the opportunity to go to the same school where the son of the richest man went .... to the school where the daughter of a Ministerial family went ... to the school where the poorest man's son went .... to the school where the ordinary friendly next door neighbor's daughter went ... to the same school where the president sends his children ...

Wonder whether this will be the situation in Maldives in 2030 ???

The government introducing privatization in education system may have benefits, and I must say I fairly do agree to those advantages as any other in the nation. But my thoughts take me to a place where I don't expect most people go into ...

Well, my thinking maybe a bit "radical" or bit too "extreme" as some may put it, but I guess no harm in listening to what a barely 20 year old thinks!

Now there are different levels or standards in PRIVATIZED SCHOOL:

Lets start with the rich guy, now when he takes up a school and runs it, he will bring in quite standard professionals to manage the school, probably from Australia or UK, with the quality service and amazing professional management, comes expensive tuition fees.

Imagine a normal middle class guy getting hold of a school and trying to run it. He will try his level best to get teachers and management staff from maybe India and Srilanka, the close neighboring countries, his quality of education will be at medium standards and fees will be middle class range.

And finally the poor lad who is bright enough to run a school ends up managing a school with local teachers and some foreign teachers trying to earn a bit more ... Now here the standard is just to the mark and the fees are cheap and affordable.

NOW

The fancy rich guy sends his kid to the rather posh school to get his children high standard and quality education.

The Middle class guy sends his son to the medium standard middle class school where the kid gets medium standards of education.

Finally the poor lad sends his child to the normal rather poorly manged school ... with lower standards and quality than any other school....

FINALLY

The rich lad who comes out of the posh school sits in an AC office and drives the latest expensive Mercedes .. well he gets richer day by day... Business as usual.

The friendly middle class chap who comes fresh out of his medium standard school ends up as an office clerk or the friendly bank officer ... guy owns a "HONDA WAVE T something.. something "

and now comes the poor lad ... straight from school he comes out to the streets replacing the "Bangaalhee" actively on road works and public works ... poor fellow walks home ...

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So there it is ... Class differentiation at it most fullest form ... these are thoughts of a dumb kid like me I guess .... so what do you think???