Are our children prison inmates?
“All children must wear I-cards at all times.”
“If you lose your I-card, you will have to pay a fine.”
Experienced this?
School uniforms in India have been a thorny issue since forever.
Chernobyl Blast and Indian schools: What’s common?
“Are you a duffer, don’t you know your job.”
“Pata nahin kahan se aa jaate hai. Incompetent fools.”
Know about such humiliating experiences?
Bodyguards to protect students from bullying?
“Hey, where did you get your glasses from? Your granny? So outdated”
“Tu ladki hai kya? Yeh kya art aur craft laga rakha hai?”
Experienced this? In person or through your family or friends?
Visiting Shikshantar at Udaipur
“Bhaiyya, 21 Fatehpura kahan hai?”
I asked the local subzi wala in the humid afternoon in Udaipur.
“Shikshantar jana hai?”
beamed the septuagenarian pointing towards a lush green piece of land in the midst of an urban landscape.
7 Habits and The Leader In Me (TLIM) program at The GGIS
GGIS is a young school. And like most young people it is curious, agile and keen to practice new things. We come across many things every now and then but today I would want to share our just-begun journey of the 7 Habits program. Many of us know about this great book 7 Habits of […]
Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is a global movement by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries through a one-hour introduction to computer science and computer programming. On 9th December 2016 GGIS participated in Hour of Code at Digicorp house. Our students practiced coding for an hour with millions of other students. Along with cracking […]
The fast food schooling
Our kids love fast food restaurants. A burger and pizza are a treat. But we all also know that nothing beats the home-made, local-grown organic food. Burgers and pizzas are junk food and we try to keep their intake to a minimum But do we know what makes fast food unhealthy? Some of its inherent […]
"I don't like your education."
“I don’t like your education.” said the mother of Deepti (name changed) of Grade 3. That was the main concern amongst many others including financial conditions, mentioned by her when she handed me the application for Leaving Certificate of Deepti. I probed deeper. I had to. I was troubled with the reason given by the mother […]
Visiting the American School of Bombay (ASB)
Every academic year I visit different schools covering a broad spectrum of places. American School of Bombay (ASB), based in Mumbai, was one of my must-visit places for this year and I finally made it there. It was truly a unique experience to be there. A few of the key ideas I noticed there that we practice at […]
