Reviews and experiences on schools in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune

My ward studying in ur school in one of the lower classes feels that the h.w is too much. daily on an average they bring home 3 homeworks which is too much for children from grade 1 - 4.

In lower classes teachers are just rushing through the portions, they are not even bothered whether the children have understood it or not.  who is going to sue u people if the portions are not completed for the given year. reduce or delete some portions, there is no use show-casing urself when the child has not understood the concept at all.

it is very difficult for the working parents.  i immediately with other parents ask the management to look in to this matter immediatley or we as a group with report it to the board of bangalore directly.

is the management listening? or does it wants it downfall?

Dear all,

Those of you who are excited and keen to know about standard of teachers at DPS South please hear this out.

My son is DPS South student since Nursery and is now in Std 1-J. The class teacher  (name not disclosing) claims to be really interactive and have instructed parents to talk thourhg almanac only to her.

One writing queries everyday to her on my son's homework, classwork she says to my son " if your parent writes notes everyday I will be angry with you and scold you and will not like you".

She has threatened my son and has abused her powers. I have sent a written complaint to the principal and have also talked to her.

But imagine the pain of so many students in her class whom she must be tormenting and they might have not told their parents.

Watch out for more developements on this as I am not giving up on this case on mental abuse. 

Thanks

Meenu

Here is the fee structure for this school:

Admission fee: Rs. 40,000/-

Fees for II standard: Rs. 39,000/-

Building maintainace fee: Rs. 50,000/- (should be paid by cash only)

My children are studying in this school since their LKG classes. Now the elder one is in III std and the younger is in I std. So I have an association of about 4+ yrs with this school.

So far I am satisfied with the school.

When we moved to B'lore in 2005, we were looking for a good school for our children (what all parents do), started the search and came to know about this school.
This school follows the CBSE board and is mainly academics oriented.  The teaching staff is experienced and the syllabus format is very good. They gradually build on the concepts in each class bringing more and more details as the classes advance. There is no homework as such (I know till III class) but the regular tests (8 rounds  in one year) ensure that the students are regular in the study work.

Lack of sufficient infrastructure to support sports facilities is one negative point but that anyway parents take care of depending upon the interests of the wards.

The priorities of parents are different and each child is different so what works for me may not work for others. It is important to select the school knowing fully what the school is going to offer to the child.

I also believe that no school is perfect and no school is totally imperfect. Schooling of children is a project which we as parents and teachers together carry on. If there is no major problem with the institute, some insignificant irritants can easily be ignored.

On a personal note, I feel as parents we should encourage our children to have utmost respect for the school and the teachers.

It is sad to note that the school claims to be ISO Certified, but does not even maintain basic cleanliness as regards the toilets.  Time and again we have complained about the bad condition of the toilets (They are never cleaned and in a very bad shape).  Children refrain from using the toilet for more than 8 hours and this is absolutely detrimental to their health.

Coming to the aspect of discipline, children just run through the staircases without any control.  I just pray that there is no stampede or other accidents one of these days.  The teachers do nothing to control this mad rush.  It is worse than a municipal school. 

I request the editorial team to actually visit the toilets of DAV (All of them old as well as new buildings) to verify the authenticity of this complaint.

My kid has just started going to deens academy (called kideens). I heard of all good about this school, hope it will continue like this.

One should be prepared for being humiliated by the prinicipal if you have not done something as per their instruction. Remember instructions are sent only on email, not put on notice borad. If your mailbox is full or if due to any reason you have not checked you mail, be ready to hear some bad words from the principal. Actually they do not know how to talk to parents or with anyone in general. 

Deficiency in administration came out on very first day of school. As they have not printed the ID card for students. Please note you pay Rs. 100 for parent ID card, that you will get before school starts. But no ID card printed for student. Again prinicipal was firing on every parents who have not tagged their kids themself, How parents will come to know that they have to prepare their kid's ID card themself? Do not forget this much chaos even after paying Rs. 75,000.

I would not mind getting humiliated by principal, as long as they impart good education.

Put your kid here, if you do not mind giving extra money, and still expect less. I do not mind extra money for kid education, but expect more. 

This is my personal experiance, I know many other parents would have observed this.

I had taken my children for written test, the result was one kid passed and another disqualifed  as per results. My son & daughter are holding results with A grades in previous schools from the begining.We approached two more schools my children are passed, we got admission in Gopalan National School.

Thanks to Presidency School for conducting such useless test.

Have had a very bad experience with the school - this school brags about having the best/ smart /bright students in their kitty (their definition of smartness is highly debatable):

1. The school had been complaining that my son never spoke at school while we produced enough and more evidences that he spoke like a any other child and he was smart and jovial at home.
2. He never opens his mouth in school nor does he enjoy songs @ school; whereas  at home he is highly energetic when a song is played and his dancing is unstoppable. He even spoke in other environments (unknown) new to him - but never at school. The school was putting too much pressure on both parents and the 3 yr old child to speak and it has affected my child badly.
3. School did not promote based on the above reason and they had the audacity to cut the first time fees stating we did not withdraw the child by a certain date ! If the school is kicking a child out - how can they take the fees ?
4. The teachers are quite incapable of handling all types of children and it is a well known fact that each child is different and they must be given the space and the environment to feel comfortable and not put pressure ...I am happy to find a school and a set of teachers who have understood the situation and hope he flourishes.
5. The school has a special place for house wives and project working mothers as useless - naturally if the school is not capable of providing the right environment and is unable to teach our children - blame is on parents (especially mother) - then what is the need to send a child to a school !!

My Son is sudying in this school from PG1 .What I have found is there is lot of pressure on the parents to prepare the kids.After paying a heavy fees of 75,000 per year, we expect the teachers to be proactive & help out the kids. Expectations from kids is too much too many things are forced into their little heads, they are introduced to different concepts very fast. I think they need to go a little slow in introduction of concepts in the same year.

I have my son 3.2 yrs old and i am already sending him to Little hearts play school, domlur. I wanted to join him in Montessori-II in NPS, indira nagar branch, thinking that KG-I admission may be tough to get. I tried calling them, no one picked the fone.

Does any one of u know the details about the admission at this point of time. May i also know the fee details for Mont-II.