Today I received a note from our area committee denouncing schools and other 'illegal' educational establishments. This was droll, and lugubrious. I gave up business because I couldn't pay bribes. Instead, i chose to be a humble tutor of English, teaching a limited number of students in my apartment . I earned the scorn of both my family and friends. If i had been a businessman paying generous bribes, I would have been successful and praised by both family and friends.
Now, I learn from the committee that this activity is illegal: this is a curious moral , and the immoral is the criminal. My heart goes out to the schools that are being asked to vacate Dhanmondi. When I was in London as a child, my school was smack in the middle of a residential area: it had to be so.This was the catchment area.Local children were expected to walk a short distance to their local schools.
Are the schools expected to move to a specially designated are, such as Tejgaon? 'Tejgaon Industrial Area': are our children to be herded into industry-like compounds? What is galling is that the millionaires who have made dubious fortunes own flats in Dhanmondi, yet these shady businessmen are calling educational establishments ' illegal'. What an irony! They have the money and the time to hire lawyers: I don't . Therefore, one despairs of justice from the highest courts of the land.One can only look towards heaven for justice.
Now, I learn from the committee that this activity is illegal: this is a curious moral , and the immoral is the criminal. My heart goes out to the schools that are being asked to vacate Dhanmondi. When I was in London as a child, my school was smack in the middle of a residential area: it had to be so.This was the catchment area.Local children were expected to walk a short distance to their local schools.
Are the schools expected to move to a specially designated are, such as Tejgaon? 'Tejgaon Industrial Area': are our children to be herded into industry-like compounds? What is galling is that the millionaires who have made dubious fortunes own flats in Dhanmondi, yet these shady businessmen are calling educational establishments ' illegal'. What an irony! They have the money and the time to hire lawyers: I don't . Therefore, one despairs of justice from the highest courts of the land.One can only look towards heaven for justice.
No comments:
Post a Comment