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Left Party CPI (Marxist) and far leftist Mamata Banerjee and her party AITC are going hand in hand in this case.It all started with the alleged killings of more than 250 RSS volunteers in Kerala. As per media reports a lot RSS members are being attacked or killed since last year after CPI-M came to power there. Recently RSS started a nationwide protest against these killings by giving deputations to the District Magistrates throughout the country. Refer to this link,‘Govt mum on killing of RSS activists in Kerala’ - Times of IndiaIn retaliation to the protests carried out by RSS, CPI-M started this propaganda against RSS accusing them of spreading communal hatred against Muslims through their schools.RSS workers protesting with the body of a slain volunteer in Kerala. Picture Source: HTThe issue was raised by CPM MLA Manas Mukherjee at the West Bengal state assembly. He raised questions regarding the affiliation to more than 300 schools in West Bengal run by trusts believed to be close to RSS. He said that these schools had been causing religious intolerance in West Bengal through their Hindu Fundamentalist education. In reply, Partha Chatterjee, the State Education Minister, took out a list of 125 RSS run schools to which show-cause notices had been served. It was also said if any discrepancies were found, the affiliation to those schools could be cancelled.His exact words are,“We have decided to withdraw their affiliation and will shut them down if there is no satisfactory explanation.”The strange fact is that Mamata Government is turning a blind eye to the increasing threat from the Islamic Fundamentalists. Instead, Mamata government has decided to recognise 10,000 Madrassas in West Bengal. There are already more than 600 recognized Madrassas in West Bengal that are receiving government aids. Mamata government has also allocated Rs 2815 crore to minority affairs and Madrassa education.Mamata Banerjee in her regular attire with a white veil covering her head in Muslim style while addressing a rally.In this picture you can also see other Hindu leaders from her party including her nephew Abhishek Banerjee (in light violet Kurta) wearing fez caps. This extravagant Muslim appeasement is regarded disgraceful on their part by many including Muslims. Her party and Government's stand on RSS school is being regarded a Muslim appeasement stance on her part.What is being taught at these Madrassas?Madrassa students. Source: HTAt the recognised Madrassas the main focus is on teaching Arabic language, Religious scriptures, History of Islam, and a distorted history of India that focuses mainly on the emergence of Islam in India. Apart from that, other vernacular languages, English, geography, environmental science, maths, and science subjects are taught at these Madrassas. The problem is that neither the state government nor CPM is bothered about the Islamic Fundamentalist education provided there. At the would be affiliated 10,000 Madrassas, no standard curriculum is followed. The only thing taught there is Islamic Fundamentalism. This is, no doubt, against the secular ethos of the constitution. Still, no one is bothered about that. They are minority after all, precious vote bank. CPM, AITC, and Bengal Government are also not concerned about these madrassas being funded by UAE based Wahabi groups to promote Arabic Islamic cultures in India.Oh, they are not also bothered about the Christian Missionary schools. Their only problem is with the RSS run schools.Now, let us see where do the RSS run schools stand compared to these Madrassas.RSS’s educational wing Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan or simply Vidya Bharati runs around 19,000 schools (Saraswati Sishu Mandirs/Saraswati Vidya Mandirs/Sarada Vidya Mandirs/Sarada Sishu Tirthas/Vivekananda Sishu Mandirs/and others) all over India(around 800 of these are English Medium Schools) providing education to more than 2.5 million students under around 100,000 teachers. It also runs 15 teachers’ training colleges, 12 degree colleges, and 7 vocational training colleges. These schools are either affiliated to CBSE, or to the respective state education boards. The primary schools don’t require any affiliation, but follow a curriculum set by NCERT and Vidya Bharati. So, basically theses schools teach as per the government prescribed curriculum.Vidya Bharati schools are the most sought after educational institutions in Odisha, Madhyapradesh, Gujarat, and Assam. In Odisha every year more than 50 students from Vidya Bharati schools secure rank in the top 100 list in Odisha 10th and 12th board exams. Pass rate in these schools is around 99% which is way higher than the overall pass percentage of the state which is around 70% in both exams.Vidya Bharati School students who did well in board exams being felicitated in OdishaYou may remember that a Muslim boy stood first in the 10th board exams in Assam last year who was a student of a Vidya Bharati school. Yes, you read that right. A Muslim student from an RSS school secured top position in the 10th board exams in Assam.Here’s the linkhttp://www.hindustantimes.com/education/assam-class-10-topper-is-muslim-boy-of-rss-backed-school/story-9dySC10MPjdqeQmlwJrOlL.htmlThere are more than 70,000 Muslim students studying in Vidya Bharati schools as of now. You may refer to this article on the increase in the number of Muslim students in Vidya Bharati schools in UP.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/RSS-run-schools-see-rise-in-number-of-Muslim-students/articleshow/52824832.cmsIf these schools have been providing Hindu fundamentalist education, then why are these Muslim students getting admitted there? Why are these schools enjoying so much popularity all over India? The answer is, though these schools are run by Vidya Bharati, only standard education is provided there and no religious teachings.Yes, certain Hindu cultures are followed at these schools like,A regular day at these schools starts with Saraswati Bandana, much like the Christian schools where Gospel songs are sung at the starting of the day.During recess, before students take their lunch, Bhojan Mantra is recited. Remember, in central schools Bhojan Mantra is recited too.The day ends with the chorus singing of Rastra Bandana Bande Mataram. On Saturdays, National Anthem Jana Gana Mana is sung.These Schools celebrate Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami with processions and cultural programmes.Certain religious festivals are observed too like Buddha Purnima, Guru Purnima, Sharodotsab etc. Christian Missionary Schools also celebrate Easter day, Good Friday, Christmas etc.Do these appear to be religious extremism to you?Even after that if West Bengal Government decides to shut down Vidya Bharati schools in the state that will certainly be a pro-Islamic step by the government like many other Muslim appeasement policies of the state government.Edit(16 March, 2017): Yugashankha, a regional newspaper has reported that the West Bengal Government has banned an Ekal Vidyalaya run by EVF, a foundation that has close relationship with VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), at Tapan in Dakshin Dunajpur District on the ground that the school had been providing discriminatory education.As for the Vidya Bharati schools, a circular has been issued by the district primary education councils of West Bengal asking the schools not to teach religious scriptures, not even the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.In Malda district, protests have been carried out by the teachers of these schools against this circular. They claimed that no religious scriptures were taught at these schools. They also said that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are great Indian epics and are not religious scriptures, hence these books should not be banned from being taught at the schools. They demanded the circular to be revoked.Edit 2: Not 19,000, but more than 27,000 Vidya Bharati run schools are there in India. And the number is increasing every year. The data shown above is of the year 2002. In the last fifteen years, more than 8 thousand new schools have been opened.Edit 3: I would like to tell you a story about how the only CBSE affiliated Vidya Bharati School in West Bengal got its affiliation. It was back in the 90s. CPM was in power then. Unless the school got an NOC(No Objection Certificate) from the local administration, CBSE would not provide affiliation to the school. The problem was that the district magistrate was not ready to provide the NOC. The school authority paid a hundred visits to the DM's office. From morning till evening they would sit there only to return empty handed. No one from the office would clarify anything. They were only made to fill this form and that form, to submit this document and that document. Months passed this way and the school authority was really frustrated and finally they decided to move to the High Court.The district magistrate was summoned to the court. He was asked why he was not providing an NOC to the school. The DM said that the school was providing religious teachings and that was why they could not provide an NOC to the school. He was then asked what evidence he had that would prove that the school was providing religious teachings, if he had recorded any such extremist activities at the school, if he had collected any religious books from the school library, if he had talked to the students and the parents and got any information that would prove that the school was providing religious teachings. All the answers were in the negative. The judge was literally disturbed with this and declared that his verdict would be considered an NOC and the school authority would not have to collect it from the DM anymore. That was how the school got its affiliation.Political rivalry and vendetta have been the main reasons for the undue sufferings of these schools from the beginning.

One of the strangest true stories I have ever read of poor word use or mistaken word meanings resulting in unintended consequences is the story of Kent and Jill Easter, wealthy upwardly mobile parents with three kids from upscale Irvine, California who were basking in the sunny good life of great neighborhood, big house, respected job, nice cars and high social standing who lost it all because of one word: “slow.”When elementary school PTA parent and afterschool program volunteer Kelli Peters gathered all the children back into the Plaza Vista elementary school building after outside activities on a typical afternoon in February 2010, one boy got unintentionally left outside and was locked out from the school building for about 5 to 8 minutes. The 6-year-old was unhurt, but upset when found a few minutes later by his tennis coach, and he was escorted back into the school.Later that day the boy told his mother, Jill Easter, about the episode.Jill Easter confronted Peters, who was a petite well-liked fellow mother from the school. Peters was a long-time volunteer with the PTA running Plaza Vista Elementary’s afterschool program and she felt terrible about the incident. However, Jill Easter, a successful former lawyer and graduate of prestigious Berkeley law school who quit a successful career to stay at home with her three children wasn’t going to just let this incident go. She confronted Kelli Peters about the event in person and Peters explained part of the problem was that the boy was “slow,” and had to be reminded often and prompted when the students lined up to move from various activities.When Kelli Peters referred to the Easters’ son as “slow” she meant that he did not move fast, and the boy tended to hang back during line up when activities were finished. The child was often the last to return into the school building after outside activities.But to Jill Easter, the comment that her son was “slow” was taken as a direct insult to her son’s intelligence, that Kelli Peters had just labeled her son as intellectually slow, which was not what Peters meant at all.This misunderstanding was never addressed and would lead to remarkable consequences.The conversation with Kelli Peters’ offhanded remark that their son was “slow,” did not sit well with upwardly mobile power couple Kent and Jill Easter, both law school graduates. Kent was a graduate from Stanford and also UCLA law and was now in a thriving law firm moving up the ladder quickly. Jill was a driven, type A personality person who was used to getting exactly what she put her mind and efforts toward. She was the quintessential image of the California lifestyle; tall, fit, blond and attractive. Angry over the incident Jill talked to the school principal to see if Kelli Peters could be disciplined or dismissed. When the principal did not agree that her son being left outside for five minutes all without harm was severe enough to warrant a dismissal, Jill Easter then escalated her attempts to oust Kelli Peters from the afterschool program with a year long verbal smear campaign and endless harassment tactics to discredit the much liked Kelli Peters in the eyes of other parents. Jill Easter staged a personal war on Kelli Peters with a police report, and then a civil law suit quickly following. The accusation leveled was that Peters was now harassing and stalking her son and unfit to be volunteering at the school. Each time her attempts to belittle or damage the very much-liked Kelli Peters were thwarted.Then came the phone call in February 2011 to the Irvine police, an anonymous tip that Kelli Peters was seen at the elementary school driving erratically and was likely using drugs. The police came to the school, searched Kelli Peters’ car and they found marijuana, a ceramic pipe and painkillers in a baggie in Peters’ SUV parked right outside the elementary school.The many months long investigation which followed was a strange winding trail of phone texts, surveillance video evidence, and the surprise police discovery that Jill Easter was having an affair. The police even wiretapped conversations between Jill and her secret lover eventually leading the police right to Jill and Kent Easter’s doorstep with police arresting the Easters rather than Kelli Peters. DNA evidence placed Kent Easter at the scene of the crime as his DNA was on the pipe, and the same type baggies and pills were found in his own car.Kent and Jill both went on trial eventually and the whole sordid truth of the Easters’ conniving, marital affairs, drug usage, ugly rage and arrogance which had all been hiding behind the lovely facade of the perfect family was now all out in the open for the world to see. The anonymous tip alerting police to Kelli Peters was from Kent, and at the trial Kent admitted to planting the drugs at Jill’s behest. Through the entire trial he painted himself as the badgered husband just following his wife’s honey-do list. Perhaps one of the most unusual findings during the police investigation was that Jill Easter had written and self-published a fictional book with a woman protagonist styled in a manner which seemed to mirror herself. The character in the book, a beautiful leggy lady who repeatedly mentions how intelligent she is, quite interestingly is involved in a crime, and on the book’s back cover is the uncanny line, “If you knew how to commit a perfect crime, would you do it?”The Easters eventually divorced, both served time in jail, were disbarred and Kent filed for bankruptcy. They lost their home, their wealth, their reputation, and their careers, all the result of Jill Easter’s unmitigated rage and misunderstanding over one poorly chosen word.To read the whole story in more detail, I highly recommend the article by LA Times writer Christopher Gofford who did a gripping long form piece on the story: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1How Two Parents Ended Up in Jail Over After-School SpatWho planted drugs in the PTA mom’s car? Upscale parents, and for petty reasons.

Senior Prom: Many high school students are led to believe that this is going to be one of the highlights of their life, and encouraged to spend accordingly. It's not. Parties and things tend to get more fun as you get older.Extravagant weddings: A little like prom in this respect. Especially when the couple (or part thereof) gets more excited at the prospect of a wedding than the actual marriage.Books: Yes, many books are great, and reading them is a wonderful way to educate, entertain and enlighten. But just because something is printed and bound and has an ISBN number does not automatically make it superior to something on video or in digital form. When I was a kid, I was always reading books and got a lot of praise for it. But a lot of the time, I was reading crap books. Now, I do a similar amount of reading but it's not often in book form, and I get shit for spending "too much time on the Internet."