Consider three children. All are six years old. All attend Class I classrooms in the same city. All are equally entitled, under Article 21A of the Constitution, to free and compulsory education. But that is where equality ends. The first child attends a government school. The teacher standing in front of the class was required, by law, to pass the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) - a benchmark designed to assess whether they understand how children learn, how classrooms functio