After Gen Z, India’s Gen Alpha rises, demanding education reforms

Bengaluru, India — It was past time for class, but none of the 122 students at the government-run primary school in Samuhi Bhatpurwa village in India’s Uttar Pradesh were ready for lessons.

For once, they had something to teach the school authorities.

Dressed in their red-and-white checked uniforms, the students — some as young as six — refused to enter their classrooms un...