Garima Prasher, TNN | Jun 12, 2012, 06.32AM IST
BANGALORE: Seven-year-old Sadiya Sher in blue skirt and white top stood next to her new school's iron gate. Smiling but shy, Sadiya in her brand new school uniform, tried to hide herself behind her mother. Even though it was her first day at school, Sadiya seemed one of the regular students.
It was day one of school under the Right To Education ( RTE) on Monday for many from poor families. Around 90 children from different slums located in Fraser Town and DJ Halli area were dropped at different private schools by their parents after their admissions under the 25% quota were confirmed. Schools were apprehensive that these children from EWS might lower their standards. But these kids reached the schools at 7.30 am, an hour before the school bell.
"My daughter got up at 6 am on her own. She has been very excited about going to school and studying. We got her the uniform, books and stationery, which she packed in her school bag and kept it ready yesterday evening. She wanted to reach school in time," said Reshma Daji, Sadiya's mother and a resident of Ambedkarnagar slum in Fraser town. Sadiya will be studying at Goodwill Public School in Fraser Town.
It was first day at school for six-year-old Bindu Pushplatha as well, as she sat with her new friends inside her classroom. Within no time, Bindu followed the instructions given by her class teacher to another child and started scribbling in her new notebook. Bindu finished her class work within minutes, leaving the teacher amazed. "I am only six," said Bindu, when the teacher asked her age looking at her neat work.
While these children sat inside, their parents stood outside the school gate, anxiously awaiting for instructions from the school authorities. "I did not go for work today as I wanted to drop my daughter to school on the first day. Also I wanted to check out the school timings so that she can be picked up daily. Although the school authorities have asked us to take them back at 12.30pm, the school will close at 2.30 pm from day two onwards," said Sayed Ahmed Hose, a parent, waiting outside Goodwill High School.
The scene was more or less similar at St Aloysius Primary and Middle School and St Rocks Girls High School in the same area. Parents were seen overjoyed as they all came to drop their kids at a school they could have only dreamt about earlier.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ninety-enthusiastic-children-from-different-Bangalore-slums-take-their-first-step-to-school-under-25-quota/articleshow/14043857.cms
BANGALORE: Seven-year-old Sadiya Sher in blue skirt and white top stood next to her new school's iron gate. Smiling but shy, Sadiya in her brand new school uniform, tried to hide herself behind her mother. Even though it was her first day at school, Sadiya seemed one of the regular students.
It was day one of school under the Right To Education ( RTE) on Monday for many from poor families. Around 90 children from different slums located in Fraser Town and DJ Halli area were dropped at different private schools by their parents after their admissions under the 25% quota were confirmed. Schools were apprehensive that these children from EWS might lower their standards. But these kids reached the schools at 7.30 am, an hour before the school bell.
"My daughter got up at 6 am on her own. She has been very excited about going to school and studying. We got her the uniform, books and stationery, which she packed in her school bag and kept it ready yesterday evening. She wanted to reach school in time," said Reshma Daji, Sadiya's mother and a resident of Ambedkarnagar slum in Fraser town. Sadiya will be studying at Goodwill Public School in Fraser Town.
It was first day at school for six-year-old Bindu Pushplatha as well, as she sat with her new friends inside her classroom. Within no time, Bindu followed the instructions given by her class teacher to another child and started scribbling in her new notebook. Bindu finished her class work within minutes, leaving the teacher amazed. "I am only six," said Bindu, when the teacher asked her age looking at her neat work.
While these children sat inside, their parents stood outside the school gate, anxiously awaiting for instructions from the school authorities. "I did not go for work today as I wanted to drop my daughter to school on the first day. Also I wanted to check out the school timings so that she can be picked up daily. Although the school authorities have asked us to take them back at 12.30pm, the school will close at 2.30 pm from day two onwards," said Sayed Ahmed Hose, a parent, waiting outside Goodwill High School.
The scene was more or less similar at St Aloysius Primary and Middle School and St Rocks Girls High School in the same area. Parents were seen overjoyed as they all came to drop their kids at a school they could have only dreamt about earlier.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ninety-enthusiastic-children-from-different-Bangalore-slums-take-their-first-step-to-school-under-25-quota/articleshow/14043857.cms
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