May 17, 2011 10:43 AM
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We are residents of Bangalore. We were visiting Chennai for the summer holidays and enrolled my kids in kanchana paati, T.nagar for 1 week. First day in school my kids were taken from T.nagar center to Ashok nagar center at around 9 am along with 10 other kids and 2 ayahs in one SHARE AUTO. They were brought back in the same auto after the camp at around 12.30 in the afternoon. This is in the month of may and temperature was around 40 degrees. My son aged 31/2 was sitting on my daughter's(6) lap on the way back.
The moment they got out of the auto they both were in tears and came running towards me crying. They were soaked in sweat and were ready to go home obviously. My daughter had a severe headache the whole of that day.
The next day, they simply refused to go to the camp. It had been a nightmarish experience for them and they apparently had not done much activity too on the first day.
So, I decided to withdraw them from the camp and so requested them to take a penalty amount and refund the rest. I had paid a total of Rs.3000.
I have been calling them and visiting them for the last 2 weeks to get the refund and after much dillydallying they now say they cannot refund the amount. So, effectively I have paid 3000 rupees for 1 day of terrible camp experience.
Even a regular school nowadays have refundable and nonrefundable components in their fee structure. This is absolute money racketeering going on and I feel terrible being a victim to this.
I wanted to share this experience with everyone, so that people are more cautious before enrolling their children in such schools.
Thanks.
