Schools are meant to be sanctuaries of learning, hope, and empowerment. But in India’s broken government education system, they’ve been reduced to sweatshops for the poor. A viral video from dehradun shows children being forced into manual labour instead of attending classes. Forget math, forget science, forget even the basics of literacy — these kids are being robbed of childhood itself. And yet, our leaders dare to talk about “Digital India” and “Amrit Kaal” while kids are literally being used as free labour in 2025.
1. Books Replaced With Bricks
In a school where children should be learning multiplication tables, they’re being asked to lift bricks, sweep floors, and do back-breaking chores. The system has replaced education with exploitation.
2. Education or Exploitation?
When government schools turn children of poor families into unpaid workers, it’s not just negligence — it’s state-sponsored child labour. And yet, those in power call this “nation-building.” Whose nation are we building when we destroy its children?
3. The Great Betrayal of India’s Poor
We romanticize “government schools” as the backbone of social justice. But the reality? They’re factories of humiliation for the poorest children. Meanwhile, the rich politicians and bureaucrats send their kids to private or international schools. Hypocrisy has never been so shameless.
4. Learning Outcomes Are a Joke
india ranks among the worst globally in basic learning outcomes. Now we know why. When children are busy sweeping and carrying, when teachers are indifferent, and when politicians are busy with caste politics, what chance does learning have?
5. If This is 2025, Imagine 2030
If this is what’s happening in the so-called “New India” of 2025, what kind of future are we building? A generation that grows up with brooms instead of books, bricks instead of blackboards, and hopelessness instead of opportunity.
⚡ Bottom Line:
Every viral video of a child forced into labour inside a school is not just a scandal — it is a death certificate of India’s future. Unless we hold the system accountable, unless politicians are forced to send their kids to these very schools, India’s education system will keep failing. And every child forced into labour is one more dream india has murdered.
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