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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 12: There is a Class 8 student in Bengaluru who came home one evening and spread a spreadsheet across the kitchen table. She had tracked her family’s household expenses — categorised, colour-coded, annotated. Her mother looked at it and didn’t know what to say. The maths was right. And then the daughter asked why they spent more on one line item than another. The mother didn’t have a good answer. This is what happens when school asks a child to do something real. The problem with one size fits all India’s education system has long treated…
