Do we let them take it easy? - My writeup concerning the exposure of CBSE's flaws.

 Governments all around the world had made mistakes, with varying levels. Different schemes had had flaws that could be patched.

The first step any government could do is to take accountability.

But in the case of our government, that’s not necessary. Let’s just let people die instead.

This is not an exaggeration.

Students have committed suicide over despair due to exam paper leaks. Heartbreaking notes saying “Sorry mom and dad”. Their mistake: relying on an education system like this. But apparently that mistake is allowed to cost them their lives. Yeah, let us not take accountability.

Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian engineer and activist, an ally, and a reminder that this call for reform goes beyond any sort of teen rebellion.

During the time of me writing this, he is undergoing a fast unto death for this change. It’s been 16 days, and he is approaching death with every passing second.

But no, let him die, like a Gandhiji wannabe in vain. Let us keep our eyes closed so we can only see how nice the government is to us.

We’ve been taught about all this democracy and students’ roles as citizens throughout political science classes. Why, so that when the students actually have something to say, they can shut us up and dismiss our cries with a variety of creative excuses?

To say that there is nothing that can be done, is a mere excuse. They could reform the system, digitalize paper correction, do what is needed to make exam papers more secure. But no, let’s stick to dismissing body privacy and focus on inspecting every part of every student’s body before examinations instead, right?

Even students yet to attend 10th and 12th boards are now in anxiety. Some have boycotted this system for a better one, while for some (myself included), it’s too late to do so.

Isn’t the government to be the most trusted? So, for the government to keep up its reputation, it’s easier to keep up its reputation, it’s easier to just keep avoiding accountability despite literal lives lost (and perhaps a massacre of hopes, dreams and souls) than to actually make reforms for the sake of the students… right?

Speaking of the government as a whole, merely around 4% (according to sources such as World Bank)  of India’s GDP really go to education. Out of this, most are used for universities, meaning that there is a very low amount of government funds for the very bridge that connects elementary school to the adult world. This imbalance has existed since the very founding of the nation, and now the cracks of this bridge are visible, all while lakhs, if not crores, of students desperately try to cross this bridge.

What I personally think is that the government is counting on us to forget, to eventually craze around another controversy and leave this issue to rot. And sure, let the government have it easy, let it avoid responsibility. Let It not bother to show it trying to make the reforms, let alone consider the pleas of many students, parents, and other supporters.

This is my humble opinion. As a CBSE student studying abroad, I have the privilege of not having to face the core of the system’s negligence, though I’m certain that I’m not entirely free of its injustices either. I am not writing this purely out of rage or activism, but a mere exhaustion of trying to find what the government is doing for us, to prevent what would be the collapse of the nation’s pillar of education.

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At first I thought of staying silent and carrying my opinions, but of what use would it be? I do not see myself as an activist, just a student that is tired of this needless destruction of students in the country. I realized that as a foreign student studying under this very system, the least I could do is to voice that I had to say.

And so I had decided to write this, which I sincerely thank you for reading.

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