Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Fee Hike in First Two Years By School

I would like to draw your attention to unreasonable FEE HIKE Manav Rachna Intn'l School, This is considering the following experiences faced by us in a nearly year old institution:

Point no. 1.
It's a fact, in today's scenario one can not expect a good education on subsidized fee, but parents of MRIS's students are already paying a bit more to MRIS, than any other institute in Faridabad.
At the time of admission for session 2006-2007 all the parents were aware that this session of MRIS is going to be the first and everybody took one big gamble of taking the chance of getting their respective kids' admitted in this school only on the basis of the various promises that were given by none other than the Principal and the school counselor, At that time I was personally impressed with Principal Madam, and her vision of teaching the children by making them have clear concepts instead of just making them learn sentences in different subjects without knowing what they are reading.
At this time (nearly at the completion of session) hardly any parent would be having any negative view about the study pattern or about the teachers and the efforts that they have put.
But at the same time we do have a grudge/ problem regarding the frequent changes of teachers. I do agree that this being the beginning even you face the difficulty of finding the right kind of teacher willing to teach the subjects according to the school's environment and vision, but at the same time you would agree that it is difficult for the young students to get adjusted to new-new teachers and even the teachers find it difficult to know the weaknesses and strong/positive points of the students very fast and by the time they both get adjusted to each other we get the news that the teacher has changed.
we compromised as it is the first year of the school
Point no. 2.
While the course material and the method of teaching and giving various worksheets with relevant examples is very good, we are not happy with the quality of notebooks being supplied by the book store. One can get cheaper notebooks of better quality paper from the market which do not tear easily everytime an eraser is used. The only drawback being the lack of the school label.
At the beginning of the session while buying the books we were assured by the book store that we would be provided with proper book cover for which we were charged then. We are still waiting for the same at the end of the session. At that time we had also requested for the text books to be binded for which also we were given false assurances.
IN THIS ALSO; we compromised as it is the first year of the school
Point no.3.
The quality of the uniform especially the winter uniform is way below the standard of the school.One expects good quality uniform from a very good standard school as the uniform is the face of the school in the outside world and the school is recognized by the same.
You can imagine our embarrassment when our neighbours point out the poor quality of the uniform our child is wearing when we praise the school sky high.
AGAIN; we compromised as it is the first year of the school
Point no.4.
When the school was envisioned on paper and later made into reality, the school management with due respect to the experience of successfully running professional and undergraduate colleges must have done some very in-depth studies on the cost of raising the requisite infrastructure and also the daily expenditure of running the school smoothly and later derived at the fee structure to be charged from each student for successfully running the dream project.
Thus I, as a lay parent fail to understand the sudden necessity of hiking the fees which I feel is a very arbitory and a rash decision on part of a otherwise very good management .
NOT ready to accept this.............no way
Point no.5.
Usually there is slab structure and the transport charges are levied as per the distance the student is living from the school. Even then the charges being charged are among the highest among all the schools. moreover the diesel rates have reduced and hence we do not find any rationale behind the hike in transport charges.
The A.C. in the bus was working only in the initial part of the session and later on the students are travelling in an A.C. bus without the A.C. I am not talking of the winter months but heater can be used in present temperature.
same condition/situation also applies in class rooms as well, because in every parent teacher meeting we could not feel in hot days a cool .........................?
Although you charged separately at the beginning of the session i.e. Rs. 2000/-

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