Kill This Bill Part 2

The Right Of Children To Free And Compulsory Education Bill, 2008 is available here. (Thanks to Ramesh Srivats.)

I read what was most relevant.

Clause 7 is on the sharing of financial and other responsibilities. This will be a central government funded and directed programme in the main. What is interesting is Clause 7 (6) which says:

“The Central Government shall—
(a) develop a framework of national curriculum with the help of academic authority specified under section 29; …”

When we go to Clause 29, everything becomes crystal clear. It says:

29. (2) The academic authority, while laying down the curriculum … shall take into consideration the following, namely:—
(a) conformity with the values enshrined in the Constitution;...

This will be Socialist education for all, by force, and at the taxpayers expense.

It will have a high standard of uniformity – the uniformity of error.

I rest my case.