My Daughter is 3.5 years old now and is going to a pre-school for last 1 year, now it is the dreadful situation of every parents! –> Getting her to a good standard school. Now it is kind of really dreadful. Your kid do not get into school for a variety of reasons ranging from;

    • Both parents are *not* working
    • Both parents *are* working
    • Parents do not have Post Graduate Degree
    • The 2 year old doesn’t speak or is not well versed in English
    • and so on…

 

The reasons above don’t they look pathetic, the foremost reason of sending kids to school has more or less become a status symbol in India now. I live in Bangalore, since I work here. Now I remember my days where during schooling, it was literally nothing other than the cost of the books. The pre-school I’m sending my girl takes 19K INR from me for an year. Now comes the fun part, the next school I want her to go is not *the best school in the country* or so, but still including the donation and everything, it is easily 100000 INR is what we’re looking at here. I did my whole of engineering with fees for 4 years and it was 4500 INR!

The problem is, this is not one thing which we can opt out, putting to school is a must and every parents need to do it. Not that I can’t afford that money, but hey we’re talking about INDIA and there are more on the other category who can’t afford this.

At the same time, even sending to school is not enough, you need to find your own ways to educate them, even this is instructed from the same educational institutions. So my wife found a website which is rich in fun oriented study materials, for free… www.starfall.com – Check this out.