“Do you know children or divorce them to Mars?”

7.35 dollars per year for a child in the first row. This is the price that has been marked by PRICE CA Kapil Gupta in LinkedIn’s post this week, wondering whether schools are “studying children or divorcing them to Mars”.

Gupta was interacting with the generalization of the fees for the 2025-26 academic year, as private schools listed $ 7.35 as annual fees for the IB basic program for their years (grades from 1 to 5), or $ 3.67 per period.

Fees’ rise steadily: $ 7.75 for grades from 6 to 8, $ 8.5 for 9-10 dollars, and $ 11 amazing annually for grades 11 and 12 under IB Diploma. Even the ICSE (Grades 6-10) does not lag after $ 5.94 per year.

“Education and Healthcare is supposed to be basic rights, but in our country, they have become slowly luxurious services,” Gupta wrote. “In the name of IB and international councils, this school has turned into a business model.”

He said that these schools prey on parents’ concern by marketing expensive education as the only way to succeed. “Frankly, with this money, many of us have completed our full education. What is there in grade 1 that costs a lot?”

The post takes a target to a system that Gupta believes that he was drifting away from its purpose. “Private schools have become a center for organized looting,” he wrote. “Each government must intervene and put a ceiling on the amount of fees that can be imposed, especially at the primary level.”

The school also requires one-time non-refundable entry fee for $ 1 and $ 1,000 request-before tuition fees began.

“If things continue like this, good education will remain merely a dream for middle -class families,” Gupta warned. “Knowledge of everyone, but today it is sold as a luxurious product.”