5. India Opens a Door to Private Education

A leading columnist associated with The Indian Express, Gayatri Rangachari Shah, writes about the private schools that are being opened in India. She starts out the article by giving an example of an Indian child that has changed by attending to a private school, and this draws the reader's attention. She goes on by continuing the child's family's story. She explains how the child's parents are pleased and saw the difference between the private schools and the public schools. The public schools suffer from teacher absences, poor infrastructure, gender discrimination, and lack of facilities. However, in the public schools students receive individual attention from motivated teachers. Due to the angry wealthier families that didn't want to admit the low income families in the private schools, the Supreme Court enacted the 25 percent quotas. Only those children that have a parent or sponsor with the tenacy to process the application can get in private schools, and the rest has to receive poor education in public schools. Then the writer ends the article by explaining how the act is trying to solve these problems, and how much the government has to help financially to do that. 

The purpose of the writer is to be to inform the readers about the education problems that huge number of the Indian people suffer, due to financial problems, and how public schools are better than public schools. To prove his point, he does not only compare the public schools and private schools in India (he lists public schools' problems that private schools don't have), but he also gives an example of a child that has gained self confidence and self esteem by attending to private school.