I have read Rashmi's insights and all the other postings. Phew! We all have our own personal experiences and emotions when it comes to the Indian schooling system. No experience is the same.
Perhaps, somewhere between blaming the system and accepting the system, we as parents could take a look at the role we could play in all this.We could give our children a healthy direction to their life, a more balanced outlook towards the future. We as parents could assist our kids in assimilating the good and weeding the bad out of the system. We could understand what we want to begin with. Do we want a child who goes to IIT and IIM at any cost? If so, we need to look at ourselves and not blame it just on schools. They impart knowledge but we as parents impart everything else- values, goals,dreams. Schools teach Math, English, Science and so on. We could teach them how to cope with them without ruining their childhood. Basic foundation is the key to anything today. Having an enriched school and home life as a combination, children could thrive any where.
