Education in India is a fundamental right, and a joke for those who don’t have big pockets. It is well known that the disparity is unequivocally real, and the divide is higher than ever. The divisive nature of education comparative in debates of why the State Boards are better/worse than it’s other well known CBSE and ICSE counterparts is a weird thing to consider as all these institutions are not here to fight for who’s better, they are here to educate and uplift the masses.

For the poor, the CBSE and ICSE systems are foreign. They only have access to the State Board systems, where they are sold a lie. A lie that their child will get the education they deserve, the nutrition they need with a side of a world they can conquer and live in. Education is their only chance of getting rid of the lakhs upon lakhs of debt accumulated just to survive one more day and let the child study.

For the middle class, CBSE and ICSE are the way to go. The parents were wronged by the State Schools, so they do not want their kids to go to those schools. It becomes a thoughtcrime for the child to speak in a language other than English at these schools. Although a good measure to create a common identity, yet horribly implemented as some schools even fine people. Yet these educational boards don’t like that enough and they want more. They drill into the mind of the child to never speak up to teachers, never ask “absurd” questions and to never go against the command of the one in-charge.