mental illness final boss

"I heard this place is popular around here."

i wish you'd never been born

i recently finished this little game so... here's some fanart

also these two pieces are matching. kinda

“i don’t know what to draw”

“i always mess up”

“BUT I SUCK”

and no, this is not me blaming one government and calling it a day. this is decades of institutional failure. different governments, different ministers, different policies, same students getting cooked.

because look at the pipeline:

teacher shortage single-teacher schools insane pupil-teacher ratios poor foundational learning uneven infrastructure rural + tribal access gaps secondary-school bottlenecks terrible accessibility for disabled students digital divide private tuition filling holes the public system should be filling students falling off between educational stages

and THEN you get to higher education and employment and the state basically goes lmao good luck gang

getting a kid enrolled in school is not the same thing as educating them. you can have beautiful enrolment numbers while the actual classroom is understaffed, resources are shit and learning outcomes remain weak.

the teacher shortage alone is embarrassing. single-teacher schools still exist, and the pupil-teacher ratio gets even worse at higher levels. so the further a student progresses, the more the system starts giving “figure it out yourself” energy.

then there's the secondary-school problem.

elementary education exists → student reaches adolescence → suddenly access gets harder → transition rates fall → poverty, distance, migration and other barriers start doing numbers.

and if the school isn't adequately teaching you?

private tuition.

because obviously the solution to an underperforming public education system is for individual families to purchase the education the state failed to provide 💀

and THEN we reach JPSC/JSSC.

because apparently the state decided that after spending years trying to get students through an already dysfunctional education system, it would be really funny to make the recruitment system itself unreliable too.

JPSC has had years of controversies involving recruitment, evaluation, results, answer keys, interviews and examination irregularities. the 14th JPSC civil services examination became another massive controversy, with allegations around OMR sheets and examination irregularities leading to an SIT investigation and eventually cancellation of the exam.

JSSC has had its own mess, including the CGL paper-leak controversy, cancellation and reconduct.

and then people go:

“why do these students care so much about government jobs?”

because what the fuck else are they supposed to care about 😭

if secure formal employment is limited, government jobs become disproportionately important. people spend years preparing, pay for coaching, applications and travel, put their lives on hold, and then the examination process itself becomes questionable.

you cannot tell young people:

education is your way out of poverty ❤️

and then give them:

understaffed schools → weak learning → expensive tuition → limited higher-ed opportunities → unemployment → competitive exam → allegations of irregularity → cancellation → wait another year

like be serious.

and the class implications are huge too.

if you're wealthy, another year of coaching is annoying.

if you're poor, another year can mean another year of financial dependence, another year of unemployment, another year of your family spending money they don't really have.

that is why these aren't just “exam controversies.”

they're part of a much bigger education-to-employment failure.

and again: this isn't about pretending nothing has improved. enrolment has improved. some learning indicators have improved. infrastructure has improved in certain areas.

but decades of accumulated institutional weakness don't disappear because one metric went up.

the actual questions are still:

are there enough teachers?

are children actually learning?

can they access secondary education?

are schools functional and accessible?

can rural and tribal students realistically stay in the system?

can disabled students actually use the facilities?

can graduates find meaningful employment?

and when they compete for government jobs, can they trust the fucking examination process?

because the issue isn't that jharkhand has “bad students” or that young people are lazy or entitled.

the system has repeatedly failed to provide a reliable path from school → education → qualification → employment.