Parents from middle class family like me should admit our children in Government schools in and around our residence. The amount we spend in private schools can be saved and utilized for our children’s training. We can arrange the training classes outside the school after the school hours, what these private schools are having in their syllabus. In Government schools there are fewer syllabuses and less homework, the child can concentrate on extra-curricular activity. The child can learn computers, a foreign language and martial arts outside the school in an affordable way. There are additional benefits as well, you can avoid the morning stress to you and your children, the transportation charges from home to school, the heft donations and of course the class room teacher and the principle atrocities.
By putting our children in Government schools we can save a lot of money every month, part of this saved money can be spend for the welfare of our Government schools, like providing class room materials and sanitary materials. The able and available parents can volunteer themselves once in a week to take care of the school sanity, the supplies for their class room and can work closely with the teachers to improve the quality of the classroom and the teaching methodology.
The parents here at California (USA) are not sending their children to Private schools. Here they are sending their children to Government schools and the highlight is every classroom has a room parent every day. Parents can volunteer as room parent, they can work closely with the class teacher and help the children in various classroom activities, this helps in bridging the gap between the teacher and the parent. We are following the west in most of the things, why don’t we take this idea from the west and implement in our schools to eradicate the private school atrocities and the stress it’s causing to the middle class parent community.
The time has come to revamp our thinking. Our children can’t grow alone (isolated from the society) and be happy in a society where there are poor and uneducated children around. Instead of thinking about our own son or daughter and her high-tech education, we have to think about the children in our street, the school in our street and the way to improve the school and its standards.
I think by changing our thinking a little bit, we can overcome the troubles we are facing today due to these private schools.
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