Deciding on the school is the biggest challenge any parents would have faced, because it is not such an easy task. It involves various things like quality of education, distance, fee structure, campus, other extra curricular activities.
I started this responsibility a bit earlier(August) for the admission in next academic year because many schools start issuing application by October and finish all the admission procedure by December.
In fact I prepared a Resume / Bio data of my child and was handing over to the schools when I visit.
I took almost 5 months, enquired about 50 schools over the net, phone and personally visited around 35 schools. In fact I prepared a book to make a note of all the school details, fee structure, their syllabus. I am happy that this book was handy to the parents of some other children.
Few schools were good, but it had high fee structure which was not affordable, few were rejected because of distance, few were rejected because of the quality of education. This was only through feedback from various parents over the NET or personally talking with them.
During my visit to the schools, I used to talk to parents of children of that school, to get a review of the school. It would be always a mixed reaction from parents. As expected the first year admission fee was always higher than the subsequent years and ran into thousands of rupees and that excluded the transportation cost.
In few schools the pressure was high as I had to take decisions on the spot as the seats were limited and not much time was left to me to compare and consider different schools.
At last I decided on a school and got him admitted after getting a good review from parents of children of that school.
Wow, RELAXED A LOT NOW, but with that responsibility of parents does not end. IT STARTS.
I would be more than happy to hear the experience of other parents in finding the first school for your child. Please share your experience by writing your comments below:
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Hi,
I totally agree with author. We need to consider many parameters to find a right school for our kids.
You can visit this blog which gives basic inputs on how to search for good school.
http://informedwoman.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/right-age-to-start-schooling-for-your-child/
Hello Divya,
Wish you are doing good.
we always get 100% time to choose our schools we want. we might not get seat in some good schools due to various reasons like fees, distance. but it does not mean that we have failed in our decision.
in bangalore, all the schools are open to visit the facility. they welcome all parents.
in fact i choose BVM after thinking a lot. I told some of my chennai friends to enquire about the bvm in chennai. i talked to the parents also. they all gave a good opinion.
but i personally request you to visit all the schools before taking a decision.
best of luck
thank you
shashilaksh
True, it is indeed a key task to identify the right school for our children. This is becoming increasingly difficult with new age schools coming up which promise holistic development of the child. While we can do a detailed research and keep the stats ready based on the reviews and parent opinion, the question is do we always get to choose a school? It is more like the school choosing the children they want to teach. I am based at Chennai and a leading school in the city has openly published on its website that parents may register their child upon birth for the KG admissions!!! So, my query is how often do we even get to choose schools. Moreover, I am not sure if schools in chennai encourage parents to tour the school and look at the facilities. I have done some initial research on schools based on reviews on the net. I am yet to personally visit schools. Any parents who have done a similar exercise like Mr Shashi, or parents who have secured admissions for their children in the last two academic years pls share your experiences.
And a a ending note, Congrats Mr Shashi, BVM has a good name in Chennai too and hats off to your efforts and and thnx for sharing.
hello mr. shashi kumar, we r based at chennai. i am really overwhelmed about the care u have for ur kid. my champ is in jr kg now. its a cbse school and they have system called idiscoveri. i just want to know which system is been taught in ur kid’s school. and do u know any info about the system called idiscoveri?
Bala vidya mandir,bangalore.
finally which school selected for ur kid….congrats to u for doing good enough work in finding a good school for ur kid…!!