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Last week, the Private Schools’ Association JK arranged an interaction with some of the people’s representatives in the present government at the Conference Hall of the Institute of Hotel Management, Srinagar. For many, it might sound like a routine event that ends up with a news story in the local media or some sound bites in the social media. May be it is actually that, but there is another way of looking at it. It can become a part of a vibrant civil society dialogue over matters that really matter, and education is a priority area. In the room–conference hall– there were well-meaning people, all accomplished in their respective fields, and watching them face to face with people’s representatives, holding a candid conversation on the state of affairs related to the handling of private schools in J&K, was soothing to the eyes. A celebration of sorts To begin with, if there was one solid piece of education for all in the room, it was the value we can experience in the live interaction between the people’s representatives and the people who they represent. This interaction was something to be celebrated. And we all know why, at the moment, it is a celebration with a capital C. And that puts an extra burden on both, people and the people’s representatives. And that is to be truthful to each other. There might have been times for ‘privileges’ and ‘concessions,’ but that is certainly not there anymore. We should now develop the habit of building an argument and working in a normative, not to be confused with regulatory, atmosphere. The regulatory requirements are a small part of that normative framework; may be there are glaring contrasts between the two, at times. This normative framework is more about societal expectations and the very essence of the thing called e ducation . On either side we should identify the relevant questions and collaboratively find answers to them. Without each other, we will only be harming each other. It is in that spirit that I look at schools and the functions they render. Regulation, a faulty idea As an independent observer, I may agree with the things people associate with private schools, or I may disagree. But in the larger scheme of things, our approach to private schools is inadequate and mostly faulty. The idea of ‘strict control’ smacks of intoxication of power, whosever enjoys it, and at whatever level it is enjoyed in the bureaucracy. What is being projected as ‘Regulatory Requirement” and what are the actual requirements of a school to impart education-there is a huge mismatch. There is also a mismatch between the societal requirements of education and the way government may want us to run a school. A dialogue can happen only if people are allowed to talk, and those in the government have the will to listen. The regulatory framework should evolve from that dialogue, and not be imposed from the top with a humiliating disapproval of the larger societal mind. Organic, Autonomous, and Authentic When I was lining up my idea on this, my daughter, student of a private school, was singing this line with herself: ‘ Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader .’ If that is what education should aim at, we need to reconfigure our approach towards schools. Leaders are not born in an atmosphere of control, in an atmosphere of disrespect and limitations. Leaders are born in an organic, autonomous, and authentic space. Schools should be treated like that. The government and those who run the private schools should work collaboratively to ensure that schools become organic, autonomous, and authentic spaces. By reducing this lofty ideal of education to things like NoCs, fee fixation, and a strict adherence to the govt announcements on when to go for summer and winter vacation, we make a mockery of everything. One would love to see our schools as organic, autonomous and authentic spaces where teachers are respected and rewarded as they should be, where each service is adequately compensated, in monetary terms, and where those who run these schools are respected for their enterprising spirit. Build a realistic understanding If that has to be achieved, the government must simplify the processes, make the systems efficient, and build a realistic understanding around the concepts like Free Education , Charitable Trust and Not-for-Proft. In absence of that, our understanding of education and the private schools will always revolve around things like fee, with a ring of populism around it. Our fixation with the bathtub endangers the life of the baby in it, as we throw the baby out with the bathwater. Danger of control More we make it difficult to run a private school, we will see well meaning people, those who really work selflessly, leave this space. More we make it difficult, we will see enterprising people divert their energies and resources towards some other activity. And all this will only result in either our students leaving Kashmir to get quality education or remaining content with a downgraded form of education that will only waste their lives. Let’s pause and dispassionately think about it. A complaint here and there, about a private school here and there, should not guide our understanding about how to deal with private schools. It needs a visionary grasp of what education means, and an actual understanding of how institutions are run. You cannot squeeze such a vast territory within the noose of regulation. The government shouldn’t look at the private schools just through the prism of regulations, and the private schools also shouldn’t look back through the same prism. Make this discussion wider and focus on where the focus should be – education of our children. 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The reconciliation committee constituted by Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje led National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to reconcile aggrieved party members and stakeholders has stormed Adamawa state to begin effort to uniting the party ahead of 2027. Addressing party chieftains and other stakeholders at the party secretariat in Yola Monday, the chairman of the reconciliation committee who was also the former military governor of Plateau state, Senator Mohammed Mana, said the party national leadership and other stakeholders were seriously disturbed with internal wranglings and divisions rocking the party in the state. He said the situation prompted the decision to set up the committee to meet with all stakeholders and reconcile the party. He reiterated the commitment of the party to reunite the party in the state, stressing that their mission was to reconcile the party to enable it regain its lost glory. He assured that they would be fair, honest, just and urged all aggrieved members to feel free to express their grievances for necessary actions and total reconciliation. Mana further noted that APC was a grassroots party to beat in Adamawa which enabled them to produce the gubernatorial, National Assembly and other elective positions but due to internal divisions, the party lost the state in 2019 and 2023 elections. He, therefore, emphasised the need for all to sheathe their swords by putting the collective interest of the party in their hands and work together to retake over the state in 2027. According to him, the party and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu held the state in high esteem which was why the President appointed so many Adamawa sons and daughters into strategic positions in his government. Earlier, the Adamawa state APC Chairman, Barrister Idris Shuaibu, welcomed the reconciliation committee and lauded the effort of the party’s national leadership to reconcile the party in the state. He expressed optimism in the capacity of the committee to reconcile the party in the state going by the calibre of people in the committee and their track records. He, therefore, urged all aggrieved members to give maximum cooperation to the committee to enable them succeed in their assignments.

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It was advertised as “Britain’s answer to The Evil Dead” but the only similarity is that most people who have seen Cornwall-made Revenge of Billy the Kid probably ended up as brain dead as a zombie. The 1992 film has gone down in movie history as one of those that makes the lists of “worst films ever made” ... but it has grown a cult following of people who really love it. If taste is what you’re after then stay clear of Revenge of Billy the Kid as it is packed with toilet humour, bestiality and the sort of inbreeding “comedy” has long fought to overcome. The 87-minute film, which has an 18 rating, centres on the MacDonald family, who have a farm on Gomorrah Island off the coast of . Various locations across the county were used including Mousehole harbour. The “horror-comedy” shows the daddy of the family, Farmer Gyles (as you can see it’s not big on originality), erm, impregnating a goat. The mutant offspring, Billy, is tormented by the farmer’s sons who are all called Ronald MacDonald. Hilarious. It’s only the daughter Ronnie (see what they did there) who feels sorry for Billy, but her mind is on boyfriend Lance Allot. Yes ... Lance Allot – you can see the level of sophisticated writing on display here. Billy leads a miserable life and finally escapes wreaking revenge and havoc on the family. Only Lance can save the day from the goat-human hybrid. Passed by the British Board of Film Censors without a single cut, the film was made in Cornwall and – it has to be said – the actors’ Cornish accents are pretty spot on in that over-exaggerated way so beloved of comedies. The farmers are so obviously based on the hillbilly family in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but without an iota of that film’s fear factor. The film, directed by Jim Groom, was actually made in the 1980s and was a British entry into that decade’s splatter-comedy fad; an attempt to mirror the success of films like Re-Animator and The Evil Dead (a poster for the latter can be spotted on a bedroom wall in the Cornish film). However, the film was released four years after filming started in Cornwall due to financial problems. After exhaustive efforts to raise the necessary money through the usual channels failed, the production team did so after placing ads in national magazines. Unfortunately – or, possibly, fortunately for Cornwall’s reputation – the film was a complete and utter flop on release and was barely even on video outside the UK. It received a belated one-star review in Empire magazine. It states: “Made over the course of three-and-a-half years by a group of fledgling filmmakers with commendable perseverance and funds raised from a variety of sources - including a Grimsby businessman contacted through an ad in Private Eye - Revenge Of Billy The Kid rates, rather unfortunately, on a par with the Golden Turkey-winning Plan 9 From Outer Space as one of the most mind-bogglingly bad movies ever. “While atmospheric lighting and imaginative camerawork reveal the presence of some intelligence behind the camera, the sub-Viz meets Carry On by way of Monty Python toilet humour will test the endurance of even those hardened connoisseurs of Z-grade movies.” Reviews on Amazon, where there is only one DVD left in stock priced £39.98, include: “Have never laughed so much in my life.” “This is so bad it’s become a classic.” “It’s a strange mix of comedy and horror, but it’s very entertaining.” “A good classic never dies.” First-time director Jim Groom subsequently went on to make one other horror comedy with Room 36 (2005), as well as the documentary Legend of Hammer Vampires (2008). He has subsequently made a series of short documentaries for the extras of DVD re-releases of various Hammer films. Now you’ve got a taste for it, Revenge of Billy the Kid can be seen in its entirety on YouTube. Good luck.Scott Bessent’s Husband: Is the Billionaire Secretary of Treasury Nominee Married?