Some people say private schools should be banned because they give students an unfair advantage on others. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and include relevant examples from your own experience.

 Some people say private schools should be banned because they give students an unfair advantage on others. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and include relevant examples from your own experience.

Privately owned schooling institutions have come under the critical scanner due to them offering a plethora of facilities to their pupils. This as per the detractors is fueling the inequality in society; thus, in their opinion, should be done away with. However, a lobby strongly contests this proposal.

The view about shutting down private schools finds its support in the founding principle of education: to bring a sense of equality in society and help foster social harmony by disseminating knowledge to all in similar conditions right from the formative years, but privately run institutions are promoting a permanent wedge between the elite, who can afford these institutions and the lesser fortunate, who are condemned to study in public schools. The sea difference in the educational facilities and extra curricular activities takes the former several leagues ahead of their latter counterparts, fueling bias and jealousy as a result. This leaves a permanent imprint on the young minds, eventually leading to unbridgeable pronounced social fault lines.

Nevertheless, progressive educationalists ridicule this idea and feel this might prove counterproductive for society as a whole. Private formal tuition has revolutionized the concept of schooling by bringing in several innovations like integrating technology to impart the content to the learners by bringing in concepts  such as smart classes; upgrading the curriculum to match the changing paradigm in terms of the future skills requirements; and affording an accountable faculty with up to date knowhow of modern teaching strategies. These can never be attained by government funded institutions due to lack of funds and innovation.

Overall, I fail to concur with the idea of closing private schools since it lacks substance, and could lead undesirable consequences for school education. Social engineering can be affected through other means, education should be left alone.