I had horrible experience with the school & I am very upset. I wanted my child’s pre-school to be a very happy & encouraging experience as every parent but it happened to me just the opposite. The guy who runs the school is an engineer by profession & is a good marketing person by not at all an honest and patient person to run a school especially a kindergarten. His eyes & mind are set on money and money making only.
I have many examples to substantiate this but I will give you one example --- the day I went there to take admission, the guy was boasting about the school, his love for kids, his patience to take care of them, educate them & to the extreme limit to change diapers for the kids if needed.
A few weeks after, I went to pick up my child from the school & that day I opened the noisy gates of the school without any noise as I didn’t want to disturb the classes going on as it was not time yet. I thought I will wait outside the veranda quietly till it was time & to my astonishment I first saw another face of this man. I saw him shouting & yelling to a small kid (around 2 years) asking him to sit down on the floor near him & he got back to what he was doing on his laptop.
I wondered why he reacted this way but thought maybe the guy is in a bad mood but minutes later after this when he saw me through the window, he thought I just came in & started speaking in a very sweet way to this same little boy sitting on the floor beside him --- "Hey Chris, do you want to play?" I got a shock of my life then. I understood that he is a fake & lost the trust I had on the school. I guess this is the same he is doing to my child too. No wonder my child doesn’t like to go there.
A few weeks later I heard him shout again to a 3 yr old girl as she forgot to remove her shoes before entering the school. This guy is no good as he doesn’t show any patience at all & is a bad model model for kids as I have seen him shouting even the teachers there during Onam & X’mas celebrations. I understood I made a bad option for my child’s pre-schooling & the school’s love for children is just a show-off. He speaks sweetly in front of parents, carries your kid, hugs & kisses & when you are gone, he puts the kid down & straightens his shirt. He is such a "drama King". His mother who is a doctor whom he boasts about as a full time doctor at service for the school, she joins hand with her son in the money making business and instead of correcting her son’s character she is busy clarifying her son’s character.
Once I mentioned her about her son’s shouting habit & to that she explained how hard it is to take care of so many small children & then all these can happen!!! Don’t they know that this kindergarten business is all about taking care of kids!!!! I strongly suggest that this kindergarten & pre-school should be allowed to run by those who are really trained for this. A law should be enacted for that.
The teachers must also be trained ones. But in The Wonder years, I don’t think at least one teacher is a trained person. Their English is so bad & the teaching is just average. (when you go there, the guy will talk to you in good English but if you want to know how your child will speak, talk to the teacher in English ---then you’ll know). They do have a report book written Everyday about your child’s details like how your child responded in school, how much he ate, how much he drank, remarks & so on. But I regret to say, that’s also a show only. Whether my child drinks water or not the teacher just ticks everything. My child have come back from school without even drinking a drop of water for days together, ( I understood this b’coz I measure & fill water in his water bottle) but everyday the teacher ticks ’drank water’.
Even if I put diaper for my child still the teacher ticks ’went to toilet’. The programs that they conduct in school are just another way of advertisement. They’ll say ’you are more than welcome’ to the programs there (but remember you should stay out in the portico) b’coz if you go in see the school, they’ll send someone behind you to see whether you are stealing something from the class. it’s so annoying to see every now & then an aaya or teacher coming in to check you coz the old lady(CEO’s mother) signal’s them to do so. I found that the programs were not meant for the overall development of my child but it was just a way to show everyone that the school is going on well.
The program distribution also reflects, if you tolerate the school & make the school happy with ’some extra gifts & something extra’ your child will be treated well or else your child will be neglected & they doesn’t care whatever the child feels. Most parents there are working parents, either they don’t know or they get along & tolerate the school coz they have no other option. I think, this is why my child never liked the school. sometimes he cried, sometimes he just went off to school but I watched the unhappiness & stress he had when he went.
The moment when my child comes out, he becomes so happy & talkative again and tells me each & every thing. My child is 3&1/2 and picks up things very fast. I analysed thoroughly what made my child so unhappy & I found that it’s their------ ’attitude, arrogance, neglectfulness, greediness & show off’. When all these worked together my child disliked going to school & if given a chance would stay at home itself. If you tolerate all these you are a good parent otherwise you are a bad one. I got really sick with the school in a few months time. I tried to adjust with the school but the school gave me & my child only stress & unhappiness.
So after 6 months of mental torture, I pulled my child out of the school. I saw the school’s advertisement in ’The Hindu’ daily & got deceived. I checked the website too. I write this review b’coz no one else should be cheated & should undergo the pain I went through. So you guys out there, please don’t fall for the advertisement you see about the school. It’s DECEPTIVE. If you go for it, you’ll regret later as I do now.