Characters:
- The smartly dressed sales guy
- Concerned Indian parent
- Happy go lucky kid wanting a new toy (tablet)
- A company that wants to make the quickest buck out of you and never look back.
- A CEO who is making millions fall in love with cheating.
Scene: Time 7:00 pm. Typical Indian middle-class setting. TV in the background playing news(fish market shows) or cricket. Father just back from grueling work and bumper-to-bumper traffic. The kid just in from the nearest playground. Mother toiling in the kitchen sweating and puffing making rice crisps and round rotis.
Enter the dragon. BYJU guy.
Jump to step 11 if you want to know what happens next.
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Step 1: Mentor/Teacher/Sales Guy will visit your house.
Step 2: Will ask your child some random questions.
Step 3: Show some videos on tabs with good graphics and portray that your child will learn “every” concept like this.
Step 4: The child wants a tablet. The parent is emotional about children’s education. Want a better future for them. The smartly dressed sales guy will ask you to give it a try for ten days - otherwise full money-back guarantee(laugh).
Step 5: You want to think about it, ask your friends, family, well-wishers, plan your finances (the one year course is your monthly expenditure, salesperson pushing you to buy a 3,4-year package to “secure your child's future” along with tab is a potential 2 lakh investment.
Step 6: Smartly dressed salesperson says, Finance, loan, etc available, just sign here. Ten days you are not happy, we can do a full refund (which rarely happens).
Step 8: Emotional Indian parent (with SRK ad playing in the background on TV). _Bacchein ke liye kuch bhi_
Step 9: Sales target met, another gullible parent becomes bakra.
Step 10: Gross mismanagement begins. Content doesn't justify claims, false promises, unresponsive customer care. Smiling sales guy becomes avoiding phone calls. The child realizes this video not helping with homework or school. Neither exams ass promised.
Step 11: Byju successfully cheats 3 lakh, Indian parents. Wins awards. Makes 10,000 crore properties, talks about revolution, sponsors cricket, wears blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and sleeps every night dreaming of steve jobs. Think and learn, cheat and earn!
There are no more steps. only regrets. India, the great nation of Nalanda and Takshashila, is today subjected to Kali Yuga.
As a concerned and affected parent. I ask you to take proper feedback before considering this scamster - so-called tech unicorn. Find out the testimonies of parents from Amaatra Bangalore.
Talk to any employee (who isn't part of the top management). And the reality will surface.
You want to change India, great. Create an Education revolution, Super. Just ensure that the children and parents don't become a victim of your greed.
You have a child too, lest karma shall strike.
Teacher or Cheater? You Decide!