I am a teacher in an exclusively residential boy’s public school in Delhi. The parents of each of my students pay an annual fee of about Rs 200,000. That’s nothing much compared to the fees charged by international schools in Delhi. Yet that’s quite a lot compared to the annual per capita income of an Indian. So I, as a teacher in such a school, would expect certain standard of behaviour from my students. For example, I would expect that the students want value for the money that their parents are paying ( paisa wasool , is that the right phrase?) I would expect my students to gain as much as they can from the classes, from the sprawling playgrounds (which most Delhi schools cannot afford), and from the very routine of a residential school. What do I, as a teacher, actually see? I see my students trying to bunk off from classes. Ok, you can blame the teacher for not trying to make the classes as interesting as Kapil Sibal’s CCE envisages them to be. I see my stud
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