Srinagar, Dec. 17 -- Every year, as board examinations approach, a familiar discussion resurfaces dummy admissions. Recent newspaper reports have once again exposed how thousands of students enroll in higher secondary schools but rarely step into a classroom. . But if we listen closely, dummy admissions are not just about attendance. They are a cry for help from students, parents, and even teachers who no longer find meaning in the current structure of schooling. Dummy admissions have slowly turned into a norm. Students take admission in a school only to satisfy official requirements, while their real academic lives unfold somewhere else in crowded coaching centres, far away from the classrooms where learning was once meant to take place....