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301,Mamta House, 231,S.V.Road, Above Indusind Bank, Bandra(W), Mumbai 400050, MH

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Mumbai India
AMAZING... OUTSTANDING... OUT OF THIS WORLD
Mar 09, 2006 02:32 PM 10475 Views

My daughter Akshita has always been my friend, but after she joined Billabong High, Bhopal she has gradually become an interactive friend with whom I can talk the Global Language (English) about the Solar System, Human Body, i.e. Bones, muscular system, nervous system, etc. And many more subjects. I am sometimes amazed about the kind of exposure she is getting at the school. My wife Parul enjoys going through Akshita’s home assignment file. She feels very satisfied when she sees her interacting with people with confidence; when she doesn’t want to miss her school; and her overall development. We also like the school building and the ambience of the classrooms, which is different from the orthodox classrooms, which always makes me recall Pink Floyd’s song, ‘Teacher, teacher we don’t need no education...’ We would like to thank Billabong High & Macro Education Society for its efforts towards providing a beautiful & congenial educational environment to its students, which will be helpful to them through out their life.


Soram Prabhakar


Mumbai India
Its baseless..
Mar 08, 2006 08:27 PM 8044 Views

I've known the school inside out for the past ten years and have no reason to believe that anythin this person has claimed is nonsense.. you must understand that there is no school anywhere on this planet that is perfect.. and if you are lookin for that perfect school, I highly doubt you're going to find it..ANYWHERE. I completely understand the problem you've faced and the trauma your child may have experienced. but you must understand that there are problems everywhere and you can't just blame it on the school. also your claims of the toilet being filled with poop is plain DISGUSTING and has no ground.. also if u found that this was a problem how come you didn't report it to the authorities? or create a blog about the ''poop'' in the toilet. I know India is a democracy and we have the right to expression, but everythin has a limit. you can't make false accusations with no proof whatsoever.. and off the record I think you should set your priorities straight n sleep at 2 am instead off shooting your mouth off like a heavy machine gun..i'd really like talkin to you.. sincerely awaiting your reply..


a pissed off citizen...


I nearly lost my son,due to Kangaroo Kids kkel.com
Mar 02, 2006 02:59 AM 29293 Views

I am writing this as I want every parent who in interested in admitting their child to Kangaroo Kids Pune(kk) at Koregaon Park to know about the facts. I am totally in shock! Today I had to drop my son


to Nehru Memorial hall for the concert practice at 9.00am. My son cried a little as he does not like new and strange places. I was given a card by the management ,saying that without that card I cannot pick up my son. The pick up time was written as 12.30pm. I reach there at 12.25pm.


I am shocked to see my poor son standing all ALONE at the entrance gate of the Hall!!!


I was very upset and angry that a school of this stature where all hoity toitys kids go, has no one to take care and wait with my 2.8 year old son!!!


There were cars whizzing in front as the main door opens right into the main road called Camp area of pune! There were men strolling around, beggars walking past him! Any one cud have taken him away in 5 sec!! I waited there for 5 min which was like ages to see if someone will come. Then a teacher comes out and seeing me standing with him brings his bag. No word or even a thought to the fact that he was all alone.


I asked her why there was nobody with him? And the asnwer was blank, then another teacher comes by, who cooks up an excuse that there must have been miscommunication. I was livid and shaking out of shock and anger and irresponsibilty of the school. I felt betrayed! I was in tears to know that the child I take care and fuss about so much, was standing all alone in the middle of the bussiest part of the city by the same school that I trusted and paid 3000 bucks every month! In that cost I cud keep him a full time educated nanny who wud not only teach him but feed him and care for him.


KK is well known as its Mumbai branches have actors n hifis kids going there. But unfotrunately the pune branch has only cashed on the name. It does not care about the kids. They donot own up their mistake ever. Several times kids are found sitting alone with no one around after school time! A year back my son was bitten by ants at 14 places and the school refused to own up that there were ants in the premises. On the contrary they said that may be in my car I shud check for ants.


Its the most irresponsible school I have ever encountered. They dont have water back up and there were times when the toilet was full of poop. How infectious it is to send ur kid to this kind of unhygenic school. Just last month my son picked up urinary infection from the school.


I am so fed up and today was the last straw. Its been a full day now and neither the principal, owner or even the class teacher has called to find out if my son is ok and how are we doing.


I am still shiverring when I think of wat if someone kidnapped him, or just took him away! World is full of maniacs, wat if someone did something to him? Wat if he started to walk in the main street with the heavy traffic all around him? I just cannot get myself to forget this incident. Anyone who has any query u can email me here . I am taking up this issue with the owner Lina Ashar. If they can pacify me fine, else I will be going to the newspaper and tv channels to let the poor parent be ware of pune branch of kangaroo kids school.


Donot think ur kids are in the safe hands there. Infact if u leave them there, u are at the worst risk of harming ur child.


Please evryone spread the word, about this damn school, b4 u let the silly teachers harm ur kid!!! And donot forget to make comments!


I have taken admission in another school for my son today.


Yesterday was the meeting with the people from KK headoffice mumbai. They were very proffesional and knew wat they were doing. To the extent that they lacked empathy. They first wanted to ’’tackle’’ each parent seperately. I was not interested in 1-1. AS there were all the parents waiting to be heard. We all went in and with the pune mngt in tow. I started to explain all that I had gone thru, the carelessness of the mngt, the coldness from the mngt and all other problems.


While the meeting was nearling end, I thot that since things were accepted by the mngt and were ready to take corrective actions, it was my moral duty to inform them that I have emailed to hundreds of people. So they shud not be surprised if someone gave the mail for print. The moment I said print , they both panicked. Instead of realizing that whenI wrote the mail, by then it was more than 2 days and no one had contacted me from the school. I had out of frustration made it my agenda to write to every one I knew to circulate the mail. As I wanted to create awareness about the incident that had happened and then beware of the school. Then the principal mentioned that there was someone who was found distributing pamphlets against KK. But instead of understanding my condition and frustation, the female rep from KK, indirectly threatens me saying that anyone who maligns the name of KK will have to face their lawyer. Not once but atleast 3 times she repeated that. The male rep had his wits togather and was trying to take care of the situation.


While leaving the female rep mentioned another comment against me. She said that’’ the way Vaundhara who’s son had pushed a bead in his nose, handled the situation very nicely as compared to me’’ . I was again very shocked, but by this time I realised it was no use talking to the mangt reps, for whom one child’s case was important as his mom was very well connected politically than a child who’s mom chose to approach the mangt directly with no backing politically. Also she thot that in the times of crisis like I was facing, I shud have sat down to analyse and strategise how I shud approach the mngt. So now my dear readers, u have to decide if I shud let them go as they threatened me (haha) or I shud now give a go ahead to the 2 reporters who are waiting to go live with the story. In either case I will need ur support. As this is not my fight it is a step towards making our children safer, and these school take better actions.


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A Hoppy Education system indeed!
May 09, 2005 10:16 PM 8257 Views

Kangaroo Kids is a name associated and pooh-poohed as 'one of those elitist thingys', but for once, I wish I was a kid today so that I could get that kind of education that most of us have missed out now. All in a span of 11 years, this tiny preschool (as it first began) has altered the meaning of holistic education, setting up examples for the education system as it exists in India. Gone are the days when you were supposed to know your times table by-heart, whatever strategies you adopted to drill it in your brain. Enter instead, the era of creative and divergent thinkers, problem solvers, knowledgeable human beings! The curriculum that this organization has created is simply mind-blowing! besides, its expanding and spreading its wings in different areas in India (they have what 30 odd centres in India to date) Apart from just preschools, the newest feathers in its cap are the high schools-Billabong High (in Mahim and Goregaon) and the TEACHER TRAINING CENTRES that train effecient and able early childhood educators. Its a one year diploma that they offer and its an ideal career option for women and men (i think it is absolutely adorable to have male ECE educators!) who wanna have that perfect balance between home and career. For further info on that, contact 26437304.


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