Registration and teacher fees limit access to education in the region and many children do not complete primary school.
Years later, as a high-school teacher, Fee discovers that the choir director's son is one of his students.
So teachers charged fees, and, to assure themselves of a livelihood, they had to please their students.
Chris Waterman, chair of the supply and teacher training advisory group, said a "perfect storm" of factors had led to the crisis, including attacks on the profession by ministers and Ofsted, a rise in pupil numbers, the decision to stop paying off teachers' tuition fees, and an improvement in the country's economy, which had led possible applicants to look elsewhere for work.
Had Isaac and I not been there at the same time, we might have been moved by the young man's call for better teachers, lower fees, and more freedom for the students, but all either of us could see from the moment our eyes locked was the other's vaguely familiar, possibly hostile face staring back.
His guru, in lieu of the usual teacher's fees, extracted a promise from Dayananda (the name taken by him at the time of his initiation as an ascetic) to spend his life working toward a reinstatement of the Vedic Hinduism that had existed in pre-Buddhist India.
Although they could be classified into non-profit-making and profit-making, their curricula, teacher qualifications, fee charging criteria, school administration, and performance still should go through the same inspection.
Students also said that when they did manage to go to a class, there was often no instructor present because they themselves had not been paid their teacher's fee and refused to teach.
Instead, the voters handed Ms. Kraft, who pushed the state deeper into debt but hired more police officers and teachers and abolished fees for higher education, a significant victory.
A ruling in favor of the teachers challenging the fees could sap finances at all unions representing teachers, firefighters and other government workers, labor leaders and other experts say.
