How involved are parents in proposing/suggesting improvement ideas to the school management?

Thanks,
Nitin.

This is one of the worst managed schools in the area to say the least.
The management is very hungry for money but dont care a bit for hte kids and the least for the parents who shell out such big amounts.
They dont even give the holidays which were declared in the beginning of the year. In the name of annual day they call the students for rehearsals even on Saturdays but when it comes to giving holidays they back out saying the syllabus is not complete.
If we send the kid to school, by afternoon they are sent back as most of the teachers dont turn up on these days. When they cant tell their own staff to behave right, how do they expect these small children to do so? What motivation do parents have to send them the next time?

I have very bad experience with this school. The new principal PAMELA GHOSH is very very very much arrogant. She does not know how to speak with parents.She acts as if she is so busy…she does not even talk to the parents for their concerns. She does not even smile. The previous principal was so good, always smiling and talking to parents and children. They are increasing sections of the class so much its 19-20 sections. its trash. Please stop increasing sections.They are not maintaining the education quality there. this school has become like a money making school. taking so much of money from the children and not giving quality of education. Coordinators of the pre primary are always says, will are working on it. and nothing they are doing. Why do you assure when you dont do it….??
I think u should increase your school standers, not increase the sections.
Please get good principal maam. who knows how to deal with parents and be good with children and also knows to smile and be reachable any time.
think twice when u want to consider this school…bye…bye

Leena

This year the Principal has changed, a Vice Principal has been added. They both do not seem to think from the student or the parent perspective. The functioning of the school has now left me and quite a few other parents wondering whether they both were actually in the Education sector prior to this.. and how long will these two take in settling down instead of showing their high-handedness in getting things done.
We put our kids in VH because it was not just another regular school..

Based on number of students and teachers, its all your luck what kind of teacher your child gets and based on that how much he really learns. Unfortunately my child never got a very competent teacher and every time we talked to them, the school’s philosophy, vision etc. seemed just hollow words on the website. Management has changed this year and there seems to be more chaos.SPA teachers are also not very much qualified and sometimes indulge in punishment methods for discipline. They have made local language mandatory from 4th grade and the teacher is not able to explain to non-local children properly. The quality of teachers and management staff need to improve substantially for this school. The school in no-way currently is working on soft-skills of the children instead they work on instilling some fear of principal and teachers in child and eventually child looses self-confidence.

School parking, which is supposed to be playground turned into parking, is inadequate and during any PTM or school functions the streets get packed and traffic gets uncontrollable. School in anyway is not able to manage anything here. The street leading to school is ‘kachcha road’ and I don’t understand why can’t a school follow up with authorities to get it fixed.

I am waiting for school-year to end to withdraw my child from here. I would not recommend this school to anyone.

Vibgyor Haralur i think is not trasparent employer. they do not explain the policies in detail to their teachers. They expect the teachers to abide to their so called policies and terms and conditions from day one even before they are given appointment letters but their HR person, the wya she talks as if though she is obliging by appointing you as a teacher. She will offer you ajob which is far away from your caliber and what you deserve and then start negotiating for the position that she can offer you. Over and above that unlike other organisations they expect the teacher to give one month notice before leaving even before giving the appointment letter. At the time oif joinibg the HR will tell u to submit a big set of documents and will say that after you submit you will get the appointment letter but actually afterwards you will know that the policy says iot will come after 1 month. Ideally in all organisations the notice period before the appointment letter is 1 week.
In my case since i was not enjoying the teaching method , i decided to quit immediately after 10 days of my joining. i informed the coordinator about the same. She did not tell me to give it in writing and then after 4 days when i went again to check what is she deciding about my relieveing I am told to meet the HR , she tells me to meet the rpincipal and then i am informed of writing a resignation letter. The Principal is kind enough to discuss as to why i wnat to leave and finally asks me to put a date on the resignation as they need to get a replacement. Ethically i also feel yes atleast 1 week is needed and i agreed to continue for 1 more week. I also explained to the prinicpal that it is only because i did not enjoy the teaching pattern i want to quit and the sooner i do it is better for the children because once the bonding is built the children face problems to accept the change. As a teacher I thought it is important to be a value driven person and be ethical and truthful and thus I gave a correct reason of leaving. On my last working dya when i went to speak to HR person who is very rude and arrogant she tells me that since i have not served one month notice period I will not be paid. I think the notice period comes into question after the probation period and the appointment leter. In short i have given a donation of wroking hours to Vibgyor. They do not respect a person’s ethics and values nor are they concerned about the children that what if i had continued to be there for 1 more month just to earn my salary, what impact would it have on the children.

So I think it is important to think and clarify the things with the so called HR person before joining. And idf she starts offering you a job as a toy room incahrge and then when you start negotiating it may go up to a main teacher then pls do not be surprised.