Friday, March 26, 2010

Our Representative's Note

Mr Vivek Bhushan, our representative in the Managing Committee has put up the following proposals for discussion at the forthcoming meeting. Please send in your comments either to this post or to him directly.

To the Chairman
Mothers International School
New Delhi-110016



Dear Sir

As a parents representative, after due consultation with other parents, the following is the submission for timely intervention by the board.

  • The interaction between the parent’s teachers and the students needs to be relooked in the following areas
    • Studies
    • Extra curricular activities
    • Sports
    • Attitudes in life keeping our past inheritance of value based education in mind.
  • Reformatting of inter-house spirit for nurturing leadership in both students and teachers
  • A systematic change for reestablishing value based education as the present generation of M.I.S students need intervention both from teachers and parents.
  • A system in place to reorient and reallocate teacher responsibility based on skills aptitude and inclination. This should be done by putting in place a systematic mechanism for building a team with one voice that thinks only for the good of our children.

Best regards
Vivek Bhushan

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

At last some buzz..... I suppose we need to rope in interested parents who wish to contribute, have time and vision, without hurting the sentiments of seniors and those with the old ideology. A wise leader with strong conviction who can make efforts as a link between parents, teachers and management. The MIS is organizing such wonderful camps and trips and sports then why can't the academics in collaboration with JODO GYAN, ASSET and other Good NGO'S who strive to work with the MIS. Mr. Bhushan you have the urge but no vision, sorry to say so.

Anonymous said...

oh nice to meet you Mr. P. Representative. by the way is this the pre-election surge? where have you been? parents needed some platform to vent their emotions since it is high time we spoke about academics. individual efforts have never borne results. could you organize a get together for all of us to share our experiences? regards

Sanjeev Nanda said...

I heard is there something wrong with the school's teaching learning processes? pls let me know what special has MIS achieved in the last 1-2 years except usual IIT and medical admissions and a lot of sports

Anonymous said...

why parents are telling me that MIS is not a good school for kids after class 6 as compared to DPS, Vasant Valley and Sanskriti? anyone pls enlighten me is that true?

vs said...

I am very confident that the school would come out of its blues and academics will be more than the best. It is still the best school. I would like to know why IT and science related practices are not that sophisticated and actively introduced as i saw in other schools. i suppose the school must recruit good teachers if required and pay them well. that's what i saw in Amity who pay their teachers handsomely to those who are worth it.

Anonymous said...

Who listens to parents rep anyway? The management will do exactly what they want. Does the school care about anything other than maintaining status quo? And every year the quality goes down.

Anonymous said...

I am a friend of our parents rep and have worked closely with him and our other friends on the sports field in the mornings.

While a great amount has been achieved on the sports feild (with active support of the head of sports and the passive support of the Principal)I feel that he has been an utter failure as far as matters other than sports are concerened.

I have seen him run around like a fool trying to make the management act on a few of his proposals but all he gets is a lip service and promises but nothing else.He has also taken us and a number of other parents to meet the management but to no effect.

He is too much of a stooge of the management to be effective.

Sorry Vivek----This is the best I can do for you.

Anonymous said...

I strongly feel that the teachers are enjoying too much of freedom from work rather than freedom to work. my daugther's academic workload in class 5 who is in some other school is much more scientific and compelling that my son's in the MIS. can we take up some kind of research project to study the practices at MIS, analyze and then suggest remedies for the betterment? rather such action research work should be performed by a professional with active collaboration of school. teacher themselves would never like to come out of their comfort zones. i am not talking about all but many.

Anonymous said...

MIS lacks some basis programs that many schools have, such as:
1. Newspapers in schools (is it there)?
2. Scholastic Books - that one can order through order sheets
3. Space clubs
4. Library that lets them check out books.
I am a parent of a child just going to 3rd, so maybe some of these things improve but i am not sure about it.