Recently, my five year old niece went for some entrance exams for getting an admission to two schools. In one school, the time management is so bad that they called kids at 11:30 or 12 and made them to wait for hours and finally my niece came out at 3:30pm!! Come on guys, they are kids. Can't you have some time sense at least for them?
And, there is this another school called New Horizon in Bangalore. And, just see the kind of questions they are asking for Class-I entrance exam. Kids have been asked to copy an English para and also asked to copy a Hindi para (!!!, they are still learning A,B,C s of Hindi and these people are asking for copying Hindi paragraphs). I don't understand what are they going to teach in 1st class now? Also, I heard that they had some questions on English grammar. I don't know. I feel these kind of entrance exams should be banned and the school administration should be punished for it. Come on, it is such an young age for kids. Why the hell you need an entrance exam!!! Wish Govt take these kind of thing seriously. This is not right way of education.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Education System - At its worst ( in my opinion )
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Even I am hearing horrible stories about the schools for kids. I feel, if any school conducts an exam for kids upto 5th class, I would say that school is a bad school.
I heard in most of those schools, there is lot of stress in the education as well. They try to teach many things which the students cannot grasp. I am feeling like, small private schools are much better than those big schools atleast till 5th class.
I don't know how Satish's knows Pallavi! Happy to know that two good friends of mine are some how friends with each other!
Anyway, in case you don't already know, Kittu is 2.10 now and we are looking for a school for her. Here is Kittu's story.
We went to a school called Innisfree House School in JP Nagar. Parents and kid were called for interview but Yogitha couldn't make it because she missed lot of meetings at office and she couldn't reschedule that day's meetings because only we had a day's notice for the interview. So only Kittu and I went.
Kittu's grandparents brought her to the school and I went to the school after working for couple of hours at office in the morning. The minute Kittu saw me she was very shy and wasn't in the mood to talk to me. She does this when she meets someone new or meets known people unexpectedly.
I knew it would be hard to make Kittu say anything during the interview. I wasn't worried about because kids are kids and I wasn't going to feel bad or worried about how this turns out.
Anyway, after short wait we were called in. We went in and we sat in front of the Principal's desk. To be more 'professional' I made Kittu sit on a chair next to me instead of my lap.
Mrs. Bolar asked 'What is your name?'
Kittu stuck her chin to her chest.
Mrs. Bolar asked again.
Kittu looks nowhere else but down.
Mrs. Bolar: 'Nee peremi? Itu choodi'
No response from Kittu.
Mrs. Bolar picks up something from the desk (I can't tell what) and says: "Naa chethlo emundo choodi?"
She rubs her palms against each other and makes a rustling sound.
Kittu pays attention to the sound but she doesn't look up.
Mrs. Bolar extends her hand and reveals a chocolate and asks Kittu "Etu choodi"
Kittu sticks her chin to her chest but manages to sneak a peek.
Mrs. Bolar 'accidentally' drops the chocolate on the desk in front of Kittu.
No response from Kittu.
I start trying to engage Kittu.
"Kittu choclate kavala amma?"
I manage to make it fall on her lap. It somehow falls down. Kittu doesn't make a move.
I pick up the chocolate and keep it back on the desk. I pick up Kittu and place her in my lap. She doesn't want to look anywhere but down.
Mrs. Bolar asks me: "Child's mother did not come?". I explain the reason.
Mrs. Bolar smiles and says: "Please complete the formalities at the office.
As I pick her up to go out, Kittu wants me to grab the chocolate. I do. Kittu smiles a little, Mrs. Bolar does too and I walk out with Kittu in my arms.
It is very interesting tips. Thanks for sharing.
http://www.earlychildhoodfocus.org/artman2/publish/preschool/Benefits_of_Pre-K_Promoted.shtml
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