Points to ponder over in regards to RTE

With the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutional validity of the Right to Education law for all schools, some points to came to my mind over the actual implementation of it across India. There might be that a few points / questions which would have arisen because of my lack of understanding of this Right to Education Act. However I think that most of these are valid food for thoughts. I am not jotting these in any order...

• How would a private school find out that a kid is from a disadvantaged family or on the other hand how would a disadvantaged kid's parents would prove their case?

Parents often research for the best school in the city / locality. How would poor parents get this sense or information?

• There would be cases where one's kids would be studying in the same class as that of the kids of their house maids. It would be interesting to see how the parents would react to it. Would they compare their kids class' performances with that of their maids' kids? Their might be cases when the maids' kids carry the same food in their tiffins as that of their bosses' kids. There would be a set of kids with mobile phone, neat clothes,etc and there would be a set of kids with minimal things. This disparity might bring the class-feeling among the kids too.

The parents (employer of the maids) might put the condition on the maids / servants to not send their (maids') kids to the same school as that of their bosses' kids.

• There might be cases when the disadvantaged children are not treat well / equally as the other students. The teachers might not guide them well. The facilities in school extended to other students might not be shared with the disadvantaged kids. In these cases, I dont know whether the Govt. of India has put any provision or not.

• With making it mandatory to the private schools to provide 25% of their seats in each classroom for the under-privileged children, has the Govt. just pass on their duty on to the private school owners? Neither illiteracy among the poor people is not because of these private schools nor it is their duty to think about it. They are actually spreading education, though at a profit. I suppose the Govt. should strengthen their state or central school. The present state of the country is such that no person with enough money to pay private school's fees would send his/her kids to a State School.

• As the compensation from the Govt. for these 25% free seats would be meagre, the private schools would pass on this burden on to the parents of the fees-paying parents. Therefore it can be said that it is actually the fees-paying parents who are paying of the RTE act.

• As this provision of providing free education to the disadvantaged kids is only for under-14 kids, what would happen to them after 14. In India 10th Board exams are very very important and these happen for kids aged around 15. I don't think that private schools would be so kind to continue with this free education even after 14 years and pay for the board exam's fees also. Govt. should think over it. I have got to know that the Govt actually is pondering over extending RTE till 16 years of age.