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Schools: Business Enterprise.

Post author By meenas17
Post date June 12, 2016
2 Comments on Schools: Business Enterprise.

Centum and distinctions abound
beaming faces peep out from the papers
the topper has scored 499/500.

Amazing,
I turn the papers and see many more pictures
the schools publish them. An advertisement
for the next year’s admissions.

In my times,
the schools including my alma mater
did no propaganda. It was a quite affair
The schools were not in less demand.

Times have changed.
Of late, education is a transaction
the more you give the more you gain.
Fees are in various genres.
Capitation, admission, extracurricular,
laboratory, sports, so on and so forth.
Altogether, it runs into hundred thousand.

The schools work out a profit margin,
not one of 10 to 15% as in commercials
but a neat 40 to 50.

Knowledge is no longer the base.
Money plays the mirth.
Schools churn out scores
fail in personality development.

Tags centum, fees, Poem, scores, topper, transactions

Age Evolution Experience feelings friendship

Stages Of Friendship

I had a score of friends when I was small.
We played the whole day without a fall.
We played hide and seek in the hall.
We hid behind the big wall
Then came out in a crawl.

I had ten friends when I was an adolescent.
The memory of those days is still nascent.
We shared our feelings ebullient.
We enriched ourselves with references brilliant.
The aroma of that kinship is effervescent.

As I age my friendship narrows down.
My circle is almost five down.
Mostly I languish alone.
Now I propose a softened tone.
The days of noise are no more known.