Srinagar, May 6 -- And this is how it should be. The point is that the private schools have become more about business than education. The past two decades have witnessed a phenomenal growth of these schools in the Valley. They have sprouted all over the place, from deep into the countryside to the congested urban areas, even in lanes and by-lanes. And then there are elite schools which flaunt some showy infrastructure, some even swimming pools, but that is that.

From the looks of it, a predominant part of the private school enterprise in the Valley is more about running a business than the delivery of a quality education. And they get away with this easily because a majority of the parents in Kashmir don't hold them to account or aren't...