The Education Lottery System in Indian Schools

The Education Lottery

Low-income households spend 40% more on lottery tickets than others, even surpassing what they spend on health insurance. But why gamble with their safety net?

When asked they said ? ?for many like us, the good life others already have feels out of reach. Many things others take for granted, we can only dream of. Buying a lottery ticket is our chance to hold onto that dream, to grasp at the good things in life that seem out of reach. You might not get it because you're already living the dream.?

A similar gap exists in India's education system. Most public and private schools lag behind modern standards, due to cash crunch, limited time and lengthy syllabus they feel constrained to provide students with an extra edge, leaving parents to invest heavily in coaching classes just to secure their child's college admission. To them, it's like buying a lottery ticket.

But is this fair? It feels like the opportunity for quality education is a one-in-a-million lottery ticket, not a birth right. The exploitation of low-income families by coaching institutes stems from the lack of modernization of schools and resistance to the use of technology to save time.

Empowering Schools, Empowering Dreams: We aim to bring every Indian on the table. We aim to empower schools, modernize them in such a way that, for everyone, education becomes something they can take for granted and not a lucky draw.

Small Steps, Big Dreams: Just like buying a lottery ticket, where you invest a little over time with hopes of a big payoff, imagine a student's journey in the smallest district of our country in a school powered by AFPMS. Starting from class 6, the school takes an extra 5000Rs per year from the parents for the next 5 years until class 10 to provide their child with coaching. During these 5 years, the student gets exposure to competitive tutoring, competitive environment, various career options. Also, the parents and the school get an idea about the child?s strengths, weakness and interests. All the 3 key stakeholders are well informed and the child takes the best possible decision while choosing subjects for high school i.e. class 11th-12th. The parents can now decide provide their child with a more focused coaching for his / her higher education. This approach is way better than sending the student away for coaching in a metro city all of a sudden after 10th or 12th.

25,000 rupees over five years is an investment, not a bet. It equips a student for life, ready to make real choices, not chase a lucky dream.