So it is not surprising that many of India's old-school caste and class-based regional leaders are finding it difficult to adjust to the new normal.
Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club, wrote "I appreciate the feel for the high stakes attached to small-market school sports, the knowing take on the high-school caste system, and the details of family life".
Together they occupy, in the words of cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester Jane Lynchh), the subbasement of the school's caste system.
Does your high school have a caste system, and, if so, how do you fit into, and feel about, it?
Its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, 64, is the son of a low caste school teacher who ran away from home to become a yogi and spent his late teens working as a tea vendor.
Our own ruling caste, schooled separately, brought up to believe in justifying fairytales, lives in a world of its own, from which it can project power without understanding or even noticing the consequences.
This left 225 high-schools eligible for the study, located in 121 village clusters; a 'village cluster' comprises one 'main' village with one or more eligible high-schools plus the surrounding 'feeder' villages, which do not contain a high-school but have low caste children living there who attend the high-school in the 'main' village.
Even those with little chance in life tend to blame themselves – "I should have tried harder at school" – not a social caste system that stacked the odds against them.
The governments of Turkey and India are unhappy about the report's mentions of, respectively, Kurdish girls and low-caste children.Attending school is only the first step towards education.
His children, two sons and a daughter, were educated at the same private school as the upper castes from the village.
