Schools can draw the map, but the child can’t walk it alone. The first classroom and the first teacher still live at home

Everyone keeps talking about how schools are broken, how the education system needs reform, how coaching has ruined kids. But the truth sits somewhere quieter, and it starts at home.

Most Indian parents have turned education into a transaction. You pay the fees, send the child to a good school, add some tuitions, maybe a hobby class or two, and that’s it. You’ve done your part. The rest is assumed; the school will take care of it.

That’s where it all starts to fall apart.

Our households run on outsourcing. There’s a cook, a maid, a driver, and a gardener. Everyone has a role, and everything runs smoothly. Except we’ve extended that same logic to parenting.