Should children be used for political gain?

We have written many times about the pernicious Right to Education Act, which forces private, fee paying schools to reserve 25% of seats for poor students, which makes it an act of lottery, leaving 75% of poor students to the mercy of government schools and increasing fees for the middle class by over 300%. Middle class people are frustrated with the present government for not getting rid of the act, says an article. " By outlawing detention before eighth grade, the law effectively delinks advancement from educational achievement," says the article. Why did the Congress stop all exams up to Class X so that no student maybe failed? Because parents of poor students are very often illiterate so they would be at a great disadvantage. According to socialist thinking, inequality is most easily solved by bringing everybody down to the same level. It has the added advantage of getting votes. It has lowered standards so that " percentage of rural children in grade four capable of double-digit subtraction dropped from 58% to 40% ". " In effect, RTE has created the dreaded licence-permit raj in education," says the article." The National Schools Alliance estimates that more than 5,500 schools have been forced to close....At least another 15,000 have been threatened with closure. Some schools survive only by paying inspectors to look the other way..." The US government went the other way. A law, No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, mandates standardized tests for all schools in the country regularly and schools that did not show progress of children would be severely penalized, including firing of teachers and shutting down of schools. The act has led to stagnation, instead of improvement, and has resulted in "....widespread cheating, teaching-to-the-test, narrowing of the curriculum, heartless cases of neediest children being thrown out of schools and more ". A generation has been lost. Many states in India have asked the center to revoke the RTE Act and bring back exams for Class X students. Indian politicians enjoy their power to terrorise citizens so instead of repealing the punitive act they add more violence to it. The AAP government in Delhi asked private schools to list every piece of apparatus, such as microscope and petri dish, and little things, such as " fire extinguishers, TVs, photocopiers, typewriters, desks, dissection equipment, table tennis table and library books ". What about pencils, pens and erasers? Clearly, they want to create animosity between parents and teachers, let the children go to hell. The first act of the same government was to increase their own salaries by 400%. We got rid of brutal white skin tyranny to inherit a more brutal brown skin one. We must be so lucky.