This is not about the rich and poor. Or about judging someone with a BMW or a Gucci bag. Our family personally can afford to buy both. This is about what values we want for our children. And that differs from family to family. We live in Mumbai where even the richest will travel by local train to their office and that is something I appreciate.
Also sharing below how we went about choosing a school for our daughter a few years ago.
School 1: there is an international school where parents come in audi and gucci bags. Most of the gentry here is business folks
School 2: there is another international school where most parents in this school are from service background. Well to do but the working class.
School 3: there is an ICSE school where there is a mix of service and business folks
School 4: there is an old reputed CBSE school where there is a mix of service and business folks
School 5: there is a play school till class 2nd which is a leading brand in west
School 6: there is a small Montessori school which was recently started 3 years ago
We didn’t choose School 1 because of the clash of value system with parents + the school is fancy and looks like a corporate building. This is a very personal choice.
School 3,4 wasn’t chosen because of the curriculum they follow.
School 5 my daughter used to go to for 1.5 years. That is the time it took for me to realise that the school wasn’t the right school for her. The principal was the principal because she looked like a principal not because she understood education. We had taken admission thinking ‘brand’ is good. And looks like it was good till the principal had changed 4 years ago leading to the right teachers leaving etc.
If we had not found School 6 then School 2 is where my daughter would be going because of how they teach + value system of the households coming there + we met the principal and she was genuine.
School 6 works for us because the founder is someone both my wife and I deeply respect. And she has given her life to understand kids. And we like the Montessori curriculum
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Your child is lucky to have sensible parents.
Absolutely a school is a community I have always believed in. You have to pick your community and everything else falls in place . My son goes to a beautiful grounded school called Matrikiran not many understand and i am glad as that keeps its sanctity
thats absolutely true. This is why DPS is damned as its a brand nowadays, not a school
What’s wrong with going to school with rich kids? You didn’t explain the main part of your video. Why did your wife not want to send the kid to this school?
Why are we judging rich people and their kids?
True….even I think the same
This is not about the rich and poor. Or about judging someone with a BMW or a Gucci bag. Our family personally can afford to buy both. This is about what values we want for our children. And that differs from family to family. We live in Mumbai where even the richest will travel by local train to their office and that is something I appreciate.
Also sharing below how we went about choosing a school for our daughter a few years ago.
School 1: there is an international school where parents come in audi and gucci bags. Most of the gentry here is business folks
School 2: there is another international school where most parents in this school are from service background. Well to do but the working class.
School 3: there is an ICSE school where there is a mix of service and business folks
School 4: there is an old reputed CBSE school where there is a mix of service and business folks
School 5: there is a play school till class 2nd which is a leading brand in west
School 6: there is a small Montessori school which was recently started 3 years ago
We didn’t choose School 1 because of the clash of value system with parents + the school is fancy and looks like a corporate building. This is a very personal choice.
School 3,4 wasn’t chosen because of the curriculum they follow.
School 5 my daughter used to go to for 1.5 years. That is the time it took for me to realise that the school wasn’t the right school for her. The principal was the principal because she looked like a principal not because she understood education. We had taken admission thinking ‘brand’ is good. And looks like it was good till the principal had changed 4 years ago leading to the right teachers leaving etc.
If we had not found School 6 then School 2 is where my daughter would be going because of how they teach + value system of the households coming there + we met the principal and she was genuine.
School 6 works for us because the founder is someone both my wife and I deeply respect. And she has given her life to understand kids. And we like the Montessori curriculum.