Abstract: Parents are increasingly choosing private schools, rather than government schools, for the education of their children. According to anecdotal information from discussion with parents, some parents believe that their children receive a higher quality of education in private schools than they would in government schools. Based on this assumption, government schools may lose quality students to private schools and parents may be misinformed about the quality of government education. The goal of this study was to compare parental perceptions of school quality based on whether their children attend a public or a private school in a rural area in Appajipeta village of Nalgonda district, Telangana State. Non-probability, purposive sampling was used to survey 80 public and private school parents. The study followed a quantitative, non-experimental, causal comparative design, in which participating parents (N = 80) completed the opinion inventory, a self esteemed questionnaire was designed. The study examined almost 80 % of the respondents (Parents) perceive that English medium, better quality education & discipline are the main reason for opting a private school than government school. And also more than 50 % of the respondents reported that teachers in the private school are having good teaching skills and are well qualified than government teachers. But this was a wrong belief among the rural households where the government is conducting various exams for recruiting efficient and well qualified teachers. And also 41.25 % of respondents strongly agree that they feel inferior or low status in the society, if they send their child to government school. The Union and State governments is spending thousand crores of rupees for the school education in annual budget for their people, in the similar way parents are also spending thousands of rupees annually for their children education indicates, the money spent by the government is not reaching to the citizens of the country where the government is spending crores of rupees for the school education to the government schools for providing infrastructural facilities, buildings, grounds, uniforms, mid-day meal for the students and also giving high salaries for the teachers, the parents are opting for the private schools implies the lack of political will, improper monitoring and implementation of funds and also due to lack of accountability and transparency in the education departments are the reasons for choosing the private school.
Keywords: government schools, private schools, quality education, perceptions, union and state governments.
Title: A Study on the Attributes of Parents Choosing The Private Schools Than Government Schools For Their Children Education (At Appajipeta Village, Nalgonda District)
Author: MAHESH VANAM
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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