Set your priorities right, will you?

Session 3 at the Urdu high school, I notice something different about all the girls in my seventh standard class.
The head mistress tells me that some "US based Muslim organization"'s just donated head scarves for all the girls in the school.
A total of 109.
Half of those 109 black scarf covered heads don't have slippers in their feet.
Most can not identify the alphabet.
Unless something extraordinary happens, not one of these 109 will make it to 11th standard.

The school does not have a permanent water connection.
Got an electricity connection just this year. (Its a 50 year old school, inside Bangalore)
Might be asked to move because it does not own the land it's built on.
Desperately needs a big piece of tarpaulin for the kids to sit on when the afternoon meal is served.

Now, I am a big, almost belligerent supporter of preserving our cultural identity.
But, we got to set our priorities right.
Don't you think?