Standardise school education

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Parents have a common desire to get their sons or daughters enrolled into a reputed school. For this reason, they do not hesitate to go a long distance or face daily hassle of traffic jams.
Not only that they have to spend good amount of money on tuition of the children to meet the requirements of the schools of enrolment.
But all these troubles would not be there if a common and uniform standard was maintained by all the educational institutions. I feel the need for common and uniform system of education all the more when I find my son's school, despite having all other qualities, does not impart education to its students. As I am a working woman, I cannot afford time to coach my son or cannot think of getting him enrolled in one of the reputed English medium schools as they all are far from where I live now.
My son's school has the facilities which even many expensive and reputed schools of posh Dhanmondi and Gulshan areas do not have.
For example, it has an independent school building and a big play ground. But the authorities of this English-medium school could not maintain the standard of education in all the classes. The performance deteriorates from year to year. The number of students fall in the upper classes and some of the schools function with no students at the 'O level'.
Everyone knows that this is the condition of most of the English medium schools in different areas of the city. The government should take initiatives to force the schools to maintain an equal standard to save the worries of parents. This would also end the mad rush for the schools in Dhanmondi or Banani. A minimum or equal standard is needed for all the schools wherever they are.
Shahida Haque
Chamelibagh
Dhaka