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Posted: 9 years ago
And it is social sciences and Tide for us here. The same old household chores, PTA meetings, checking grades on parent connect - the only difference is the setting. The bhallas perhaps never had to do this stuff so it seems so alien to him, but I a, sure he finds it charming and a its another thing that tethers him to her.
Btw my husbands cousin was visiting us over the weekend from Delhi and his children are in modern school barakhamba road. He got so frustrated with the he rich and spoilt lifestyle of the children there that he has now decided to actually enroll his son at a more middle class school. The daughter is too entrenched in the system and doesn't want to move but he was saying it is terribly worrying the influences that children are exposed to at these high flying schools. He said keeping up with the Jones is getting Extremely difficult by the day. Wonder how II and Rb will keep their kids grounded.

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Posted: 9 years ago
Nisha
The way you described home, many memories wandered in mind...
Typical midlle class home.. The godrej always brings smile on my face... The down two drawers in the godrej are owned by me... One contains my certifications, marks cards etc... The other one filled with handicrafts I made in school, greeting cards from friends on birthday, new year, friendship day and friendship bands, albums... Still my mom kept these things safely.. Everytime I visit clean and rearrange them...

The Dude is worried about wifey's food and health... 😊

How is Periyappa 😭
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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: taramira

And it is social sciences and Tide for us here. The same old household chores, PTA meetings, checking grades on parent connect - the only difference is the setting. The bhallas perhaps never had to do this stuff so it seems so alien to him, but I a, sure he finds it charming and a its another thing that tethers him to her.
Btw my husbands cousin was visiting us over the weekend from Delhi and his children are in modern school barakhamba road. He got so frustrated with the he rich and spoilt lifestyle of the children there that he has now decided to actually enroll his son at a more middle class school. The daughter is too entrenched in the system and doesn't want to move but he was saying it is terribly worrying the influences that children are exposed to at these high flying schools. He said keeping up with the Jones is getting Extremely difficult by the day. Wonder how II and Rb will keep their kids grounded.



Shru

Its impossible, to put it bluntly... since its just a fiction (some days I think about it so much it feels REAL😭) I can use some creative liberty to ensure their kids turn out "OK" But there is 90% probability that Modern, Goenka, and other posh school kids in NCR have tried, sex, drugs and alcohol by the time they turn 12 or 13😭

25 to 30 years ago Modern school kids would be standing outside the school's low compound wall, smoking, or walking with almost half naked girls smoking, all over Janpath
Yes, I am sorry if it offends any Modernites, but some 14-15 years could have covered up😡

I bet they are way past "walking hand in hand"

They must be giving a lot of binness to the posh Jor Bagh and Aurangazeb Rd clinics

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: Nisha0604

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">Just like parents of daughters would save once upon a time, parents of sons save 25-50 lakhs for college tuition

Either to pay capitation fee, or send them to Singapore or Australia, if you are really wealthy, then the USA

A Desi friend sent her son to Georgia Tech in Fall, he is best friends with my 16 year old, he said the campus looks like Hyderabad, there are apparently HUNDREDS from Andhra


Out of State tuition/room/board/books etc is THIRTY GRAND? 40?

With air fare, its probably 43?

Thats like Rs.24 lakhs PER YEAR for a US under grad, ONE CRORE for a Bachelors?</font>



Really liked this update. Middle class life at its best 😊

So true education is becoming more and more of a privilege. Costs and competition in India at frightening I'm told.

And if you do get a chance you must get to see the university talks that happen in Asia. Education is a major money spinner and export for the US and Australia and possibly others.
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Posted: 9 years ago
Kanji kya hai??? For us it is the fermented rice kept overnight for 2-3 days and that becomes sour and it's given a tadka along with garlic and mustard seeds and curry leaves and we drink it like a soup
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Posted: 9 years ago
Reading all these conversations, I definitely feel lucky to be studied in small town government schools... The teacher n parents guraded the children...A love letter given to a girl would have become talk of the town...
Now everything changed, the girls need attention.. More boys behind her more prestige.. They want get noticed... Education has taken the backseat.

For KG schools lacs of tuition fees and reserve the seat as soon as the kid is born 😡

What will happen to our kids 😕 😕
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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: Orangen



Really liked this update. Middle class life at its best 😊

So true education is becoming more and more of a privilege. Costs and competition in India at frightening I'm told.

And if you do get a chance you must get to see the university talks that happen in Asia. Education is a major money spinner and export for the US and Australia and possibly others.




Hey Orangen

GREAT to see you. There is always a higher more unattainable bar fr middle class parents in India. Here 90% of the parents dont give a damn, if the kid has a trust fund he/she goes to college, or if the kid is self motivated he/she does

But the other 90% couldnt give a damn to college, Bernie Sanders wants to make college education free for all kids in America, he said in his first Dem debate, I live in a extreme right wing state, I listen to a radio talk show during my commute, the callers were outraged, angry, furious, disgusted and sick that Bernie would suggest such a thing😕They all sounded like he had said "I want to sleep with all your wives" or something😆

Each caller had a own unique moronic reason about how "it takes away individual freedom" "if Govt pays for college"

In India? There is a MADNESS, it was capitation fee engineering when I was in my teens, then it became Singapore and Hong Kong for hotel management, then it became Australia and UK

Now its ALL about going to the USA😭
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Posted: 9 years ago
Yes you are absolutely right. I was I does mathura road, quite notorious as well, but nothing compared to modern, even then yes 15-20 years ago! But the coolness factor of the school even then was too much to resist. While we used to consider ourselves at par with the likes of Columbas, modern was always a class apart. But forget modern even DPS was giving business to the likes of Jakson Inn which was down sundar nagar road although such stories were few and the scandal accompanying them huge but notoriety in that respect existed even then.
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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: taramira

Yes you are absolutely right. I was I does mathura road, quite notorious as well, but nothing compared to modern, even then yes 15-20 years ago! But the coolness factor of the school even then was too much to resist. While we used to consider ourselves at par with the likes of Columbas, modern was always a class apart. But forget modern even DPS was giving business to the likes of Jakson Inn which was down sundar nagar road although such stories were few and the scandal accompanying them huge but notoriety in that respect existed even then.


I meant DPS. Autocorrect arghhh


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Posted: 9 years ago
Putti

As long as education is the only ticket to prosperity frauds and crooks will try to profit from it. The government guarantees free education but it does not have good governance of it

They employ teachers, build schools and channel tax funding towards it, but the government teachers in Delhi are too busy carrying on some side business like property dealing, or selling artifacts, or handlooms or handicrafts or something to supplement their incomes

who pays attention to what is being taught? or what needs to be taught?
Nobody sadly

You and I scramble to get our kids admissions into these over priced shitty mafia like private ponzi schemes called schools
they dont guarantee good education either... u buy the teacher a Rolex she will give ur kid an A in the Science Project

Take her with you to a Alaskan cruise she will ensure she contacts CBSE and gets u the 10th board question paper

The honest ethical ones are far and few, sadly... Vidya sounds like one, she must be lonely I feel

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