It is sad to see ex-students defending the school, without being aware of its current state of affairs. The girls section is somewhat OK, but the boys section is totally out of control. If people like "Mahir" thinks the current principal will change things, all we can say is that that is a good day-dream. Just go by any 8th standard classroom in boys section, and you will realize what the school has become off late, and it would be a great illustration of the "achievements" of the current principal and a management that supports him. He has been there forever, what has he achieved so far ? What has he done after he was handed over the principal's post ?
If you glorify the school based on "facilities", obviously Mahir has not really been to other schools. It is not building facilities that matter, it is maintaining them, and using them. Robin Singh and putting a few computers in the name of CBSE-I or e-education are all gimmicks which make good news for newspapers (as is to cause students to faint in the sun in the name of support for Qatar's FIFA bid); but the end result can easily be realized by walking along the hallways, and looking at the quality/capability of students coming out of the school these days. And let us not even talk about teachers who purposefully do not take the effort to teach properly in classes, so that they can get more students to private tuitions, all of which is well known to the current administration.
The time for change is now, we hope people realize it. If the management remains complacent based on the feedback of the principal and heads of departments/sections who suck up to them, we can only pray for the vast majority of students there.
BTW, other schools also have their share of problems. Specifically, DMIS seems to go in cycles, where it goes from good to worse and back. Birla folks have stopped adding students because of what seems to be lack of space, it was going the way of MES before with explosive growth and teachers being hired with inadequate skills. Ideal had its own share of "principal" magic. DPS-MIS has been relatively stable, except for again growth without corresponding facilities.
MES makes education accessible to the kids of a large section of Indians here who are not making mega bucks. But that does not mean that the school should deteriorate to the current situation. It only takes a bit of will power, a bit less of pity politics in both the management and the teachers, and some better intention/motivation/vision that is beyond money.
If one blames everything on growth, who is responsible for that ? Who is responsible for taking the student strength from 30 per class to 60 now in many classes ? Was it greed ? Or is it social service, with blatant disregard for teacher-student ratios ? Wasn't there an time/opportunity to stop and say "no" ? After acting foolishly for so long, now everything is being blamed on "being big" ????
It is sad to see ex-students defending the school, without being aware of its current state of affairs. The girls section is somewhat OK, but the boys section is totally out of control. If people like "Mahir" thinks the current principal will change things, all we can say is that that is a good day-dream. Just go by any 8th standard classroom in boys section, and you will realize what the school has become off late, and it would be a great illustration of the "achievements" of the current principal and a management that supports him. He has been there forever, what has he achieved so far ? What has he done after he was handed over the principal's post ?
If you glorify the school based on "facilities", obviously Mahir has not really been to other schools. It is not building facilities that matter, it is maintaining them, and using them. Robin Singh and putting a few computers in the name of CBSE-I or e-education are all gimmicks which make good news for newspapers (as is to cause students to faint in the sun in the name of support for Qatar's FIFA bid); but the end result can easily be realized by walking along the hallways, and looking at the quality/capability of students coming out of the school these days. And let us not even talk about teachers who purposefully do not take the effort to teach properly in classes, so that they can get more students to private tuitions, all of which is well known to the current administration.
The time for change is now, we hope people realize it. If the management remains complacent based on the feedback of the principal and heads of departments/sections who suck up to them, we can only pray for the vast majority of students there.
BTW, other schools also have their share of problems. Specifically, DMIS seems to go in cycles, where it goes from good to worse and back. Birla folks have stopped adding students because of what seems to be lack of space, it was going the way of MES before with explosive growth and teachers being hired with inadequate skills. Ideal had its own share of "principal" magic. DPS-MIS has been relatively stable, except for again growth without corresponding facilities.
MES makes education accessible to the kids of a large section of Indians here who are not making mega bucks. But that does not mean that the school should deteriorate to the current situation. It only takes a bit of will power, a bit less of pity politics in both the management and the teachers, and some better intention/motivation/vision that is beyond money.
If one blames everything on growth, who is responsible for that ? Who is responsible for taking the student strength from 30 per class to 60 now in many classes ? Was it greed ? Or is it social service, with blatant disregard for teacher-student ratios ? Wasn't there an time/opportunity to stop and say "no" ? After acting foolishly for so long, now everything is being blamed on "being big" ????