Which education board is best for your child?

Education is the birth right of every child, but when it gets to them, it’s often in bad quality. They do all the schooling, still they come out as they have learned nothing or just knowing bits and pieces from everywhere. So, as a parent, it’s your obligation to give them the best chance they can possibly get. For that, the first thing you can do is choosing the right education board. Everyone tends to run after schools, but no one care about the education board they are choosing. Yes, schools are important, so are the boards. Some gives vast and in-depth understanding about the subjects, and others make you just prepared for competitive exams. Each has its own advantages, and it’s important that you decide the quality of education you bestow upon your child. You have to think beyond getting the certificate, and focus on the things they learn, without reducing its quality.

ICSE

If you want your kid to get an in-depth understanding about everything, then you should go for ICSE, for it covers every subject in detail. It gives you an upper hand when it comes to the syllabus covered, helping your kid to learn more in a short time, but for that to happen, you have to develop a strong desire to learn in your child’s mind, otherwise, it will become a huge burden on them as its syllabus is very wide and complex. If your kid goes with that mindset or with a hunger to learn more, then ICSE can do wonders on your child. One important aspect which makes ICSE special is that it doesn’t focus on just one particular area leaving the others, it gives importance to every section from arts, science to language. ICSE also helps students who wants to pursue higher education abroad as it gives strong foundation from grass root level. It makes your kid ready for the world, not just limited to India. Also, ICSE is preferred more than any other boards for admission to foreign universities.

CBSE

CBSE doesn’t offer a vast syllabus like we see in ICSE. Instead, they follows an easy one with less number of subjects. It helps the students to learn with an exam point of view as CBSE conducts different national level entrance exams for higher studies. Also, the number of schools affiliated to CBSE are plenty in the country, and there won’t be any problem getting admission to one, and you can easily get transfer from one one school to another without worrying about the availability of CBSE affiliated schools. CBSE doesn’t overburden the students with an extensive syllabus, and instead they discusses subjects in an easy manner.

State boards

State boards does not have an extensive syllabus like ICSE and CBSE,it makes life easy for your child. It doesn’t go deep into the subject matter, instead they familiarise the subject matter without making your kid feeling overwhelmed. In state boards, you can choose regional languages as the medium and gain knowledge in that medium. It has both pros and cons, in one way it helps your kid tackle state level exams which is often in local languages, but when it comes to pursuing higher education, it puts your kid in backfoot. Learning things in regional languages have another advantage, the student gets to expand his vocabulary in that language which comes handy when they face state level public service examinations.

Schools matter

When you plan to provide the best future for your child, you have to really research about the school you are sending your kid to. Do they really provide what they promise or what they say are just mere words to fill up their brochure. Ask the kids and their parents about their experience with the school and evaluate yourself. Don’t send your kid to a particular school, just because all your neighbours are sending. Go out there, and get a good understanding about how the school operate. Then, make a decision.

Don’t burden their life

Don’t sent your kid to special tuitions, just because it became a social norm. Maybe your kid doesn’t need it, in such case, you will be wasting your kids valuable time, otherwise spent on various extra curricular activities. By sending your kid to extra tuitions without any need, you are dong them no favour and all you do is steal their time. Observe your child, and find out what they are good at. Maybe there is a painter or singer in your child, other than a doctor or an engineer. So, give them some time, to explore themselves, instead of turning them into machines. Let them breathe.

Conclusion

Before doing anything, spend time with your child, communicate with them, observe and understand, and find out what they are good at. Catch those signs they show at an early age, and then decide what school board will suit them the best. If you feel like your kid is more inclined to arts, then you should select the board accordingly, and take special care to not make them feel overwhelmed with additional tuitions. You have to let them dream, and they will find their own path in time. What you can do is understand them, and make those initial moves like selecting the school board which suits them, and finally, a nice school which delivers on their promises.

In love with this song 💚

 

Home, sweet home!

There was something going wrong today, the heat was so intense that I was resting too close to the fan. Minutes passed and I was drifting into the sleep, and then I smelled something burning. I wondered where this is coming from, and I opened my eyes and looked around. I couldn’t close my eyes again as the smell was so intense. Suddenly the heat got too strong, and that’s when I noticed the fan, it wasn’t working and I understood where this smell was coming from. I don’t know what would have happened If I got too deep into the sleep, maybe nothing would have or something serious would have happened as I was sitting so close to the fan. Let’s leave that for a moment. Then I went downstairs as I was feeling hungry and cooked some food. As I was putting the cooked food on a plate, I noticed something. The gas stove was not burning and I never turned it off. What if I had thought I had already turned it off, just because it wasn’t burning? It would be serious, right? These two things happened hours apart. One of the many things happening within the house, but I’m not surprised as this is my new normal. I slowly stepped outside the kitchen pondering about these events, and suddenly from somewhere I heard the sound of the lizard, I’m calling it just a sound, but I felt like it was laughing. Anyway, I’m making memories in this house, and I expect these events to be a joke one day. It’s barely one or two years since we moved into this house, and I think I’m getting used to everything that’s happening here.

Freedom

The world around me was trying to manufacture a machine out of me, making me follow their system, how they lived, forcing me to do the same mistakes they did with their life. I was always jealous of the people who were sitting idle without any kind of jobs, not because they are sitting idle, but for they carry no expectations from other people, the freedom they enjoy. Nobody expects them of anything, and they can live the life how they want. Sadly, it’s not possible for the machines around me who are only good at making money.

Unfreezing

It was heavenly, maybe more than any words can describe. I was experiencing it for the first time in my life, and it was like unfreezing parts of me, which I never knew even existed. After that moment, I came to know that there is more to life, and I was only scratching the surface. 

Till then, my world was so small, but after that it suddenly got expanded. I want to experience moments like that while doing the things I love, without the chains of expectations, by not being a machine.

Sleep

It’s 9:00 in the morning, still I couldn’t get up. The tiredness, it's ripping me apart. It doesn’t make sense, after sleeping for more than eight hours, I feel like I never had even an hour of sleep. I want to do something productive, but I’m helpless. I wish I could sleep more, but when I try to sleep, something is trying to pull me out of my body. I don’t know what will happen if I just go deep into sleep. Will I wake up again? Sleep is calling me, and I want to sleep, but I can’t. 

My body is falling apart, I don’t know how long I can go like this. I can’t tell this to anyone, for I was framed once, and I don’t want to end up there once again. I’m locked from all sides, and being monitored. 

Looking outside, I can see vultures circling the sky, the tires screaming my name, and the thunder roaring. Am I in a dream? I’m pinching myself to wake up, and still I find myself in the same place.

Mask

Everyone was praising him about how good he is, how calm and peaceful he is, but for him, it was a lonely place to be in. All he wanted was to be treated like everyone else is. When somebody said good about him, he felt like he was being cornered. He dreaded those words coming out of everyone he met.

Tired of all of it, he tried to act like everyone else around him. When somebody said bad about him, he never tried to change what was being said, instead he was smiling inside, and for the first time in his life, he felt like he belonged somewhere.

He kept doing that until he can’t do it anymore. But, that mask ruined his life, and in the process he lost himself.

Welcome back

It was an evening when that happened. I was walking on the footpath carrying things for my home, and out of nowhere something hit me from behind. My head was aching, and I couldn’t move. All I could see was people crowding around me, and my heart was beating very fast. Everyone was looking at each other’s face, hoping for the other person to make the first move, and some people were shaking their heads. Minutes later, I heard the sirens approaching, and some people carried me to that vehicle. The pain was unbearable, and I was losing my consciousness. Still, I tried to keep my eyes open until I couldn’t.

I opened my eyes, and someone was saying “welcome back”. For a moment, I thought I was in the hospital, but I was not. I looked around me, and that’s when I realised that I’m dead. These people, I have never seen them in my life, but they were looking at me like they already know me. Then they told me that  I didn’t die by accident, I was murdered. 

It was all I needed...

I have walked this road before, but something was different this time. I was in no hurry, taking my time, enjoying every step, breathing deep, looking at the sky for my friends. Usually, there was this rush which never allowed me to breathe, like going for a mission ignoring all the details of the journey, only thinking about the final destination, but now everything has changed. I’m no longer thinking about what’s in store for me, not even what happens in the next hour, just feeling the earth beneath my feet, and the cool breeze washing my body. I used to rush things, but now I’m learning to enjoy waiting even in adverse circumstances. It took a lot of time to get myself to this stage, from running to walking, to learn patience. Looking back to my life, I don’t think I have breathed properly, maybe it was all I needed, deep breaths, not anything else. It could be the only reason why I struggled all my life. I wish I had found this truth when I was a kid, and it took me twenty nine years to find out. If I could get a chance to travel back to that time, I would have told myself to do this one thing, breathe!

Healing

He was standing there for hours searching, but it didn’t make him tired, something was burning inside him, waiting to spread on someone. Sometimes, he took the shape of a snake, while no one was watching, producing venom, waiting to strike, flickering between his human form and the reptile form. 

When he saw his prey, he slowly started moving, and as soon as he reached near the prey, he didn’t know how to approach, was feeling a light brain fade moment, and started sweating.He felt shyness in introducing himself, and all the courage he had melted away. So, he took his ferocious reptile form and circled his prey, but the prey was kind to animals and never tried to hurt him. 

Instead, that person talked to that reptile and gave confidence to take his human form. As soon as he took his human form, he tried to scar his prey, but by doing so, he lost all the respect and love his prey had for him.

This guy never thought that he will fall to this low, forgetting that the others too had feelings. The venom was consuming him, and he couldn’t hide his frustration. So, he went near a tree, and sat looking into the horizon. 

What was he thinking when he was sitting there, was he planning for his next strike? 

The venom started burning him, and those who were sitting next to him. In that process, they didn’t know they were scarring themselves. But, God had other plans, a slight drizzle came out of the blue, then it became strong, extinguishing the fire that was burning him, reducing it into embers and then completely making it disappear. Suddenly, some weight he was carrying disappeared into the rain, paving the way for his healing.