Harish Chhabra brought up the matter of sports, especially in the primary section. The lack of emphasis on sport (among the youth of the country as a whole, but in urban India and in particular in the metros) is a great contributor to poor health (not to mention diabetes and obesity in children). One can go on... However, given the fact that we actually won 3 medals in Beijing, its important to talk about sports and other activities in schools. Ours.
Harish makes a number of very pertinent points.
- there are not enough sport activities and others extracurricular activites, such as dance and music, especially in the Junior school.
- Few children actually get a chance to participate in whatever activities.
- No sport activity except football is taken care of properly or given any appreciation. For example there are around four to five coaches for football but only one coach for four other sports that are throw ball, table tennis, volley ball and basket ball. Also there is only one sport teacher for badminton and athletics which have a large number of children participating... Due to this, none of these sports gets adequate attention.
- More hours can be given for sport, and perhaps there can be some new facilities.
- For many years now no new sport has been introduced.
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My daughter is in the primary section at MIS.There is a tendency to focus too much on celebration of festivals particularly Hindu festivals.If we are to develop secular values amongst our children it would be a better idea to give equal emphasis to all festivals or have none at all.
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