In America children of Indian immigrants often make news for
performing extraordinarily in academics without ever enrolling in any
government or private school. Their parents coach them at home until
they enter college or university.

Why does that not happen with Indian children in India?

Some two years back Naveen Surapaneni of the Centre for Media Studies
(CMS) in collaboration with Transparency International India gave
figure of Rs 4137 Crore worth of corruption in Government Schools. As
per reports this figure does not include corruption of government
aided private schools. Most private schools receive their secondary
and higher secondary school teachers' salary plus administrative
expenses from government. This amount certainly does not include
bribes teachers have to pay to be hired in school, percentage of
salary eaten up by the school managements in league with Education
Officers and their political masters, nor does it include private
tuitions school teachers force on their pupils during 9th to 12th
standard or bribes parents pay to secure higher grades for their
children in Board Examinations.

How will India get out of this blind alley?

Why can Indian children not sit at Board Examinations without getting
enrolled in any government recognised school?

Why no suggestion ever come up from Centre for Media Studies,
Knowledge Commission of Dr Man Mohan Singh or High Powered Committee
of 2 scions of top Industrialist families of India set up by Vajpayee
government asking for to scrap over 100 years old British made law
that requires a Board examinee to come through the head of a
government recognised school.

Psych of better off Indians is loath to give up corrupt practices in
which they have learnt ropes from their fathers and forefathers.

Corruption in school education continues to play havoc with lives of
first or second-generation literates.

Nobody in power or in know wants to get British made law which is no
more valid even in Britain get scrapped.

Why?