Worst experience of my life. Review on National Public School, Koramangala, Bangalore

I was in NPS Koramangala for 9 years, and the trauma that I have suffered as a result will always remain.

As everyone must know, NPS puts an incredulous amount of pressure on students to excel academically. To a certain extent(as long as your child's stress levels seem to be at manageable levels), this is alright. I was a good student - very involved in academics, music, sports as well as art. However, they insulted me every single day and I was never good enough for my teachers as I wasn't able to shut up and take all the abuse that was thrown my way.

NPS's strategy is to turn their students into similar-looking & behaving robots, without minds of their own, that do not voice their opinions. They used my talkativeness as an excuse to pin any negative thing that happened in my grade or the one below on me - from graffiti in the bathrooms to mass bunking of class. The staff is horrible. They insult children every day as if intending to break their spirits, saying things like their parents should disown them as they will always be failures & so should give up on their dreams.

The news about physical and sexual assault in NPS is true. During my years in school, I have witnessed one PT teacher display pornography on his school computer to the entire school at morning assembly. This same teacher, as well as the other male teacher that replaced him, would openly flirt with the young female students and pull on their skirts when they were apparently'too short'(I have personally experienced this, they still did this when the skirts were knee-length). The staff also openly hits children often; I have seen my friend being picked up by the neck and flung to the sand and being hit multiple times by a teacher; when his parents arrived at the school to complain, the principal sent them away and no consequences followed. The teacher still works at NPSK today.

I realize that most parents might believe teachers over their children, but I urge you to listen to your children if they say that they are facing emotional/physical abuse. DO NOT take it lightly! The teachers refused to stop bullying me, even after I left NPS - they constantly badmouthed me and some other ex-students to the current ones.

Please realize that good grades aren't more important than a child's well-being, especially since student suicide rates are at an all-time high nowadays - moreover, other schools will provide the same(if not better) level of education, as many teachers were underqualified to teach their subject(they asked the students doubts and told them to self-study, and if asked doubts, they would scream at the children saying that they hadn't studied enough and refused to answer), and couldn't speak English well.

The principal is the most manipulative, cruel, heartless person in this world. Not just students, but many parents also have faced abuse from her & the staff, who have made my friends' parents cry by insulting their parenting skills on multiple occasions. Most students in NPSK were depressed and under high stress, and were unable to voice their problems to either the teachers(of course) or their parents. I was depressed as well, but once I left, I became the best version of myself - I got great grades, achieved many accolades for music, art, and sports, and got into the #1 university in the world abroad for my Bachelor's course.

Please invest your hard-earned money elsewhere. This school is a waste of money, time and mental strength. They will only curb your child's potential & break their spirit, and I will never understand why. They humiliated me and my friends in front of all the students and staff on multiple occasions, and many of my friends were suicidal as a result. There are better ways to encourage a student to do well academically and in other aspects than torturing them, calling them horrible names and abusing them. Please DO NOT enroll your child in this school. There are much better options.