In the past few days I have received a couple of letters from parents who are seriously worried about the school...
I thought I would share this with all of you, and I would also request you to be more interactive via this blog. Please add your comments! Please let others know that this is a forum for all. As I have assured all of you in individual interaction, I will take up these matters when the board meets, but even before that, I am bringing things to the notice of the school management.
A parent who has children in Classes 7 and 9 writes in to say that she is sorry "that a school of such high stature has fallen in its standards of education and values. Most of the good teachers have resigned, creating a void. Some of the old teachers employ redundant methods of teaching children, thereby making the subject uninteresting. This plight is being faced by a majority of parents. Teachers are unable to finish the course or they go about it in a perfunctory way. Thus, not even clearing the doubts and not even checking the copies carefully . Some of the veteran teachers talk to the children in a disparaging tone and language not suitable to a teacher.
When other schools are giving there students an opportunity to explore new avenues,why is MIS discontinuing subjects like Fine Arts and Bio-Chemistry? I think the MIS think tank needs to put its act together and rev up the system.They have to make it nourishing and enriching by taking the children for educational field trips in Delhi. The fact is that children do not look forward to coming to school.
Times are changing. The school does not have to harp on shortage of funds or portray an image of a poor school. The Senior school desperately needs new furniture and an uplift. That's the need of the day. It also needs a dynamic person like the Junior school Headmistress, Mrs. Sanghamitra as the Principal to discipline the school and make the school academically proficient."
The Annual Day preparations appear to be quite inadequate. Can we have some professional help?
Another parent had some other points to make:
Sports: Request for special coaching in various sports in the preschool morning hours has gone unacknowledged. .
Teacher Attitudes: Very negative in parts. Rude and not very helpful. These are in a minority, but still...
Work-week: Is a 5 day week a possibility? How do other parents feel about it?
Transparency: It would be good to have the school management tell us a bit more... what are the real problems they face?
It should be made clear to the School that parents are willing to put in more resources- time and money- to help in whatever way possible. After all, at the kind of schools we think are MIS' competitors, the annual fee is at least twice that of MIS. Often more.
I hope you will give more feedback on this post- it would help me too!
I thought I would share this with all of you, and I would also request you to be more interactive via this blog. Please add your comments! Please let others know that this is a forum for all. As I have assured all of you in individual interaction, I will take up these matters when the board meets, but even before that, I am bringing things to the notice of the school management.
A parent who has children in Classes 7 and 9 writes in to say that she is sorry "that a school of such high stature has fallen in its standards of education and values. Most of the good teachers have resigned, creating a void. Some of the old teachers employ redundant methods of teaching children, thereby making the subject uninteresting. This plight is being faced by a majority of parents. Teachers are unable to finish the course or they go about it in a perfunctory way. Thus, not even clearing the doubts and not even checking the copies carefully . Some of the veteran teachers talk to the children in a disparaging tone and language not suitable to a teacher.
When other schools are giving there students an opportunity to explore new avenues,why is MIS discontinuing subjects like Fine Arts and Bio-Chemistry? I think the MIS think tank needs to put its act together and rev up the system.They have to make it nourishing and enriching by taking the children for educational field trips in Delhi. The fact is that children do not look forward to coming to school.
Times are changing. The school does not have to harp on shortage of funds or portray an image of a poor school. The Senior school desperately needs new furniture and an uplift. That's the need of the day. It also needs a dynamic person like the Junior school Headmistress, Mrs. Sanghamitra as the Principal to discipline the school and make the school academically proficient."
The Annual Day preparations appear to be quite inadequate. Can we have some professional help?
Another parent had some other points to make:
Sports: Request for special coaching in various sports in the preschool morning hours has gone unacknowledged. .
Teacher Attitudes: Very negative in parts. Rude and not very helpful. These are in a minority, but still...
Work-week: Is a 5 day week a possibility? How do other parents feel about it?
Transparency: It would be good to have the school management tell us a bit more... what are the real problems they face?
It should be made clear to the School that parents are willing to put in more resources- time and money- to help in whatever way possible. After all, at the kind of schools we think are MIS' competitors, the annual fee is at least twice that of MIS. Often more.
I hope you will give more feedback on this post- it would help me too!
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