Discussions on Education 2

The arguments that private schools have against the 25 percent free quota for underpriviliged kids [the Right to Education Act in India stipulates that private elementary schools enrol neighbourhood kids from the underbelly of society, so to speak] are all made with the 'best interests' of the poor kids at 'heart'.
Here are some objections:

1- The kids will never be able to cope with the 'English Medium' background of the school, and the parents will not be able to help the child with homework at home.
This doesn't seem a problem when middle class non-speakers of angrezi seek admission for the child.
How do the other non-English speaking kids pick up the lingo within a span of a year? Presumably by practicising the language within the school, isn't it?
What are first graders doing with loads of homework anyway? Hello, they're six year olds!

The underpriviliged kids will not be able to afford the uniforms.
Then why have expensive uniforms and designer school satchels with your school emblem all over? Ensure that all kids wear cheap and easily affordable uniforms. That should bring about uniformity and do away with dress code discrimination.

The real questions, the bothersome ones, remain unasked.

First, the draft Bihar rules under the ACT, have subverted the spirit of the Law.

Under the Act, the NCPCR [the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights] is the final arbiter for matters of infringement on matters of admissions, facilities, and recognition/ de-recognition of schools.

In Bihar, the SCPCR [the state commission] has been sidelined, with the State Rules placing powers in the hand of the bureaucrats and Education Department functionaries.

This will lead to even more corruption and drag private schools into the great government inefficiency net.

This is what should really bother private citizens, educators, and school principals.

Why have civil society organisations been ignored and sidelined in the Rules?
What about government schools that do not follow the norms, will they be closed down and derecognised? Why aren't  there penalities for government schools in the Rules?
Will this 25 percent free education quota include the already existing SC/ST quotas?

Why hasn't the issue of child safety been clearly defined in the rules and made applicable to all schools including the government ones?

If there is a government school and two private schools within the same one kilometre range, how will 'neighbourhood' be defined? Or will the government school offload  its kids into the private schools?

In the above example, who decides where to have the kids enrolled and what are the guidelines?