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Dreamers School...... Management of schools to note.

Schools & colleges need to come around to doing their basic tasks well. Provide a safe and conducive environment to every child for learning, teaching and growing up to be a reasonable citizen of the world. The key term is reasonable. Exceptional children will be supported to incrementally benefit from his/her god gift. The core competencies of an educational institution is the above. When they begin to fail in these areas of excellence that the rot sets in fast.  Since the role reversal has happened I will not go down the road of guru Shishya param para etc. suffice here to say that schools which keep to their basics will survive the competition and all others will fall by the wayside. There is no need to lament that schools have become a magnet for making money, that politicians, business investors who have barely passed their high school have set up institutions of learning. The top management and the market  will decide the long term performance of an institution. Should th

Dressed to kill

Continuing on the subject of safety,  as a civilisation as a whole we need to assess the way we dress when we are in the outdoors. During many of my outdoor trips with children, teachers,corporate executives,families I have observed many small but crucial safety compromises. These compromises are made during any outdoor activity be it indoor or outdoor sports activity, picnics, get together, treks, camps, bird watching trails, training assignments etc. Some of those compromises are as follows: Not reading the communication carefully a couple of days prior to the trip and getting to know about it from the third person. You are here assuming the person you called is more diligent than you and not as lazy and must have read the communication. Not clear about the outdoor activity and what is going to happen, in many cases not even knowing the destination. The opposite is also true in some instances we have a Mr. "Know it all", we call this person the influencer who has bee

Do not Compromise safety in Outdoor camps

Every once in a while we are faced with a grim remainder as people, as organisation as a country how callous are we when dealing with human life. The tragedy of young engineering students falling prey to the inviting sea near Alibaug when the college went on a "Picnic" ?!!.  Not far back a school kid crushed his leg in one of the rides during a school trip, A year back we saw another set of young students of engineering students from Hyderabad washed away in Manali. when the sluice gates of the river was opened,  we saw school children from Mumbai on a school trip crushed taking a horse cart ride in Panchgani Table land and another where the child was dragged by the horse and killed, or when a travel company took children to a high altitude camp in the Himalayas and had no clue why the child was having a headache. They gave the child crocin and the next morning the school child was no more having passed away in the night because of High altitude sickness.The company did