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Ryan is a good school after all
Oct 15, 2013 09:28 PM 69380 Views

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I am amazed by the ''unpalatable and sick'' comments on this forum about Ryan School. I can personally comment only about Ryan Kundanahalli. My son has studied from Mont II and is in X th this year. Honestly I have very little complaints about this school. As Vipin had said the positives are true


a. Transportation is excellent. I even told Prashanth (their Principal) that their buses are the lifeline of their school's success and my son has been travelling 9+km either way but is in great shape physically. He is a state level athletics champion...what else to complain!


b. Yes I realize that their uniforms are excellent though I never bothered about it till I read his comment.


c. Treating children equally is genuinely true. In fact when I admitted my kid in this school 12 years ago, it was not possible to meet the Principal of then, Cynthia; but Hegde their administrative head was clear that they will admit farmer's children and karodpathis children (nowadays farmers are karodpathis but that is another story!). I liked that concept and I am sure I don't find monetary discrimination in Ryan. My financials don't define my son's treatment! That is genuinely great.


Regarding the various complaints:


a. Hitting children does not seem to really exist beyond a pat or a pinch for the most terrible ones. Are parents expecting the school to tolerate their rich spoiled brats who beat up other children, destroy furniture and cause trouble. Even there the best I have heard is about the parents being called in to collect TC (which again does not seem to happen except in the worst of cases.)


b. Yes Pinto does utter some chants from the Bible when he comes, but I don't think the children are forced into Christianity or Bible reading. In fact my son could get his exams this year managed a bit as he had some religious function at home and his class teacher who helped in it was a Muslim. I think the school is hardly discriminatory based on religion. At best some Christian boys get admitted with a lower cutoff at ISC levels. Nothing unusual!


c. I have written complaints to the teachers for years. My son has never been reprimanded for the same. I yet do it and very often the comments are appreciated. In one case the Principal got the teacher to call and apologize to me though she had not done wrong to me or my son personally. While this is not important, I have not felt that a complaint leads to more trouble at least after Prashanth has been the Principal. (I did have an instance when I got the first and last opportunity to meet Cynthia who as I said before will not prefer to meet Parents because of a complaint I made about the school!)


Finally I think the following is very important.


a. When I went for my son's admission 12 years ago, the best part of the school was that they did not interview the parents. Interviewing parents is something that I consider is an insult to them. They took my son in and after a few minutes he came back beaming with a chocolate in hand. I submitted the application form only after his name was put up on the notice board before paying the fees. In other words my financials or background was not the basis for admission something most so called Prestigious schools seem to look at. (Incidentally I was a GM in a MNC at that time so I did not gain from this but I feel that this is the right way!)


This approach is certainly ideal. Why should I put my son in an NPS where my wife has to be a graduate and not working (well she satisfies those two conditions but yet who is NPS to demand that)? Is the school supposed to teach the child or are the so called educated parents supposed to teach them as expected in an NPS? So Ryan was the ideal choice and I don't repent till today.


b. While I was impressed by a. above, I feel in the past few years that it has also been the reason that children from very terrible parentage do end up in the school. When I said terrible, it means rich, arrogant, snobbish and disobedient parents of children. The disease of these parents is unfortunately passed down to their children and very often to their classmates. Many of those who complain on this board about the teacher beating the child need to note that they should think about their parenting methods.


I have been called when my son was in Std III and I spoke to a class teacher who was on the verge of delivering her child and could not take the noise from the vociferous bunch. When it was explained the three children did benefit; not as someone put it, get abused. "It is high time a basic interview of parents is done before the final admission is given." I a non believer in this has been forced to think so, thanks to today's parents who don't spend a minute with their children and expect their child to be a genius in studies, sports, extra curricular and what not! Also today's parents bribe their children with gadgets for getting better marks leading to children becoming bribe givers and not good souls! Schools cant make a dud into a genius. Good schools encourage raw talent and I am thankful to Ryan for making my son that way.


c. To explain b. above. My son is a state level athlete and that is not because Ryan school trained him in that. However the PT teacher will enable me to get my son compete in various competitions. Prashanth will go over the board to encourage my son. Not only my son is good in athletics he has been in the top 500 in the country in a few Olympiads. The school encourages children to participate in these Olympiads and now I have a rounded child who is not a typical "muggo". He learns and does not parrots his lessons. Until VIII th he listened to his teacher's teaching at class to make up for his exams. Remember he hardly gets time to study as he spends lots of time on athletics training.


I honestly feel that it would have been impossible if the school was not supportive for my son to be very successful in sports and studies. My son takes ZERO tuition. Why do the other children do it? Simply because parents are crazy to get a child who gets 80% to get 90% and ultimately ends up making the child to get 75%. Ryan school cant be blamed for children going to private tutors. That is mainly because parents are "pushy" and "kill the childhood of their children which the child will never get again"! One more beautiful stuff about Ryan school is minimal homework which enables a kid like mine to survive with multiple activities.


d. Finally every school is good and bad. Every school has good and bad teachers. I have faced the same in Ryan school as well. However a good school enables the best out of the children and Ryan is certainly a good school by that definition. Well, things have changed positively in Ryan school in some ways over the years and negatively in other ways. However overall the school meets the aspirations of sensible parents.


REMEMBER THAT IN A SCHOOL WITH ABOUT 500-600 CHILDREN PER STANDARD IT IS NATURAL THAT AT LEAST 10 PARENTS WILL CRIB AND THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE SCHOOL IS BAD. AFTER ALL ARE THE 600 PARENTS OF EACH STANDARD FOOLS TO ADMIT THEIR CHILDREN IN THIS SCHOOL?


Obviously it looks like it is an attempt to crib about a particular school by disgruntled elements. I can easily notice complaints on this forum about every other school. So if you think Ryan school fits your child's needs have him/her there; otherwise find the right school. After all no school can fit every child's needs and every child has a different need.


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