Oct 19, 2023 11:23 AM
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The curriculum is great but there is no skilled/experienced teacher to deliver at an international standard they claim to be, which is the fundamental flaw. The quality of teaching is appalling and thus puts immense pressure on the parents and students as we must start from scratch. They believe students have the superpower to grasp everything at a go without being taught and give stellar performances. They use the semester exams and unit tests to validate the students and demoralize them rather than assessing the capability of their teachers and their teaching skills.
They are highly contradicting in nature, they will ask us not to worry about the marks, but the teachers will insist on getting good marks and humiliate students who don’t. They do everything possible to demotivate and degrade the children and that’s not what schools are meant to do.
Every child is skilled, and the school must tap that potential or the least not belittle them. It’s a small group so any kind of biasedness or favoritism becomes obvious and that’s one thing that was highly intolerable. School is not just about academics but also the values they imbibe and this place can completely ruin whatever the little your kid may know.
A budding school should take feedback seriously, there is no point in asking for feedback and ignoring it. The only intention of any parent is to provide quality education to their children and want them to be in an environment that raises them as positive individuals. We spend substantial time and effort giving that feedback, but it gets ignored or ridiculed.
On the upside, you can reach out to the teachers anytime and have the flexibility to attend online classes if you are unable to make it to school, the cross-collaboration among the students, and the reading buddy program are worth mentioning. However, it falls down the cracks as again that’s patchy as well.
The school clearly lacks experienced leaders and staff and therefore has no standards, consistency, or clarity in what they do. They must bring in the right staff who have the right experience and maturity to run a school if they are serious about growing in this space.
This is just the tip of the iceberg and I hope the management takes any spectrum of feedback seriously instead of brushing it off. It is high time they do some critical introspection to address the gaps. Especially, when we pay a premium fee, we expect the school to deliver what they promise rather than constantly being reminded of what they need to deliver, even if they could fulfill some basic expectations that parents have will help them go a long way.
