It's never a shame in accepting the fact that you had a bad experience about something or someone. If that experience helps others in avoiding problems, then it must be shared. I believe in that strongly and I stand by it. Sadly, just because some people can't come to terms with the truth, they lie, even to themselves or maybe they are simply deluded. That deludes others also.
What matters(#My opinion)
As a parent, you would want few things for your child: Success, good morals and pragmatic approach to life
What makes it possible is,
Competitive education, encouraging environment and exposure to co-curricular activities
Lancer's doesn't give you good education, it just trains you to cram up things like you are a monkey in circus. Do what your master tells you to do. Never question or think creatively. Don't go astray walk in line like a sheep. They scapegoat you. Narrow down your horizon. It's not competitive, it just streamlined and hardwired to score good marks. When you face competitive world, you come to know how important it is to have a deductive and reason oriented thinking. I am glad I had proved lancer's wrong when I got into science stream and kicked the asses of all the toppers by getting good rank in IIT and AIEEE. I shattered their assumptions. It was a nice tight slap on their face. All thanks to my coaching institute and the leaves I took by not going to Lancer's.
I never found teachers to be nice and inspiring in Lancer's. I don't blame them, they themselves were so frustrated, depressed and pathetic, they used to find ways to flush out their anger on us. I had mentioned my experiences in detail earlier, for which I got much oppositions. I still stand by it. Screw those who feel its all hogwash!
Nevertheless, as morals are concerned, it wont matter what they teach, they are hypocrites, one minute they talk about patience, humility and all the nice things and next moment they do just the opposite. Children learn more by actions rather than just words. My parents gave me nice morals from the very beginning, I am glad I did not delude myself with Lancer's hypocrisy and their "Sai baba" teachings.
For overall personality development, school never did anything significant(specially for average students). As I had mentioned earlier. No sports, dance, music, drama etc for you IF YOU ARE AN AVERAGE STUDENT. That simply does not makes sense to me. A child can have different strengths and weaknesses. He might not be good in studies, but good in sports/dance/arts/music etc. and vice-versa. If you suppress, then you are restricting him/her to the fullest potential. You are killing his/her future.
Gist
Childhood is never meant to be so complicated, Lancer's made it, at least for me and my cousins, friends, everyone whom I know personally and trust. Good to know it wasn't so bad with everyone, going by the comments, God bless everyone.
But, I am writing this comment after 3 years, I have graduated(NIT), worked in IT firms and have now started my own start up. At least I know that I have seen academic, corporate and competitive realms in and out. I have seen the world, I still feel the same for Lancer's after so many years of introspection. What a waste of my time, that too for 14 years! pity to those who still don't want to accept that they were harassed.
Please look for other options as well before putting your child in this school. Don't rush. Don't judge the book by it's cover. Meet the parents and alumni before taking a decision.
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My intro:
-Alumni from Lancer's Convent school - Prashant Vihar
-Currently I am pursuing a Btech degree from one of renowned institute.
My personal Experience
I am writing this review specially to ensure that people do not make same mistake as my parents did.
From the very beginning(Kindergarten) when I joined this school I often used to complain to my parents about physical abuses done by teachers.
Kindergarten experiences:
When I was in KG, my class teacher used to furiously slap or smack the students even for doing minute mistakes like writing incorrect date, name or alphabets etc.
I remember once she lifted me in mid-air by twisting my ears just because I had forgotten to bring my HW notebook, such a disturbing thing to happen for 3-4 yr child.
I should even mention some incidents like removing turban of sikh students and removing shirts of students who were shabbily dressed. I was undressed once in 1st standard which fills me with rage even today.
Mid level:
The school has often turned out to be very greedy in some or the other ways, but thats very common with schools in Delhi.
Once my elder sister(who also studied in the same school) along with her collegues won a prize in a race event held in some other school. She managed to get a Photograph clicked on her own.Since school had not sent the photographer for the event they asked her to submit the photograph for publishing the school magazine but later on she had to pay Rs. 50/- to get back her own photo.
One of the most peculiar thing you'll come to know about this school is that its not at all a Co-Ed school!
In classrooms boys and girls sit in different rows, during lunch they spread out in different playgrounds, in cultural events they perform separately. strictly no coupling. Boys with boys and girls with girls only!
Even if the school authorities come to know that their students are hanging out together after school premesis they feel offended and punish them.
It was only when I came to college that I became more confident and opened up in speaking with girls, otherwise I would have been a chicken.
To be frank my parents never took the tyranny of teachers seriously. They used to think that I am making excuses or that I cook up stories to skip school. It was later on that they realized how shy I was in sharing insecurities and insults.
Things I liked:
I used to like Games period scheduled for 2 hrs consecutively in a week. But sadly the school rarely gave any preference to performance in sports.
The playing grounds are well maintained and regularly irrigated but that is for show only. I used to be in the school football team during 10th to 12th standard and we went for cluster levels.
In view of this our PhEd. teacher hired us a football coach who was good enough to train us but faced problems in participation because of overburden of studies.After I passed out I came to know the coach left.
I would ask readers to please consider my advice and never admit their children into this school.
