Children's world

That is the latest result from my school quest. A small neat setup opposite the Police Station. An acquaintance was sending his son to that school until the child fell off the auto he was travelling from - and that was the end of his schooling there.
And that was a major issue in my converstation with the lady who ran the place. The school van and its destinations. She said she could try asking the lady who ran the van service whether she could pick n' drop my son. I am yet to meet/call her.
As for the lady who ran the place, she was a spectacle to behold. At least the hairdo. The basic hair style seemed alright save for the tail end - which formed a pony tail on the side of her face and looked like a broom hung off a hook. Her face made up to hide her ageing skin, she reminded me of the North Indian teachers I had in the Indian Expatriates Study Group school in Dar-es-salaam - the kind of who brought their lipsticks to the calssroom and applied in between lessons ( we would watch in wonder as they shaped their pale lips with bright red lipsticks).
No, she was not a teacher of lil children. She only ran the school and did some French translations on the side. In the end it turned out that she was a Malayali.
We had a good long chat about schooling options in Chennai. She allayed my fears that I wont be able to find admission in Class 1 in a different school if I let Ash do his KG (CBSE syllabus) in her school. She only had pre-KG and KG sections due to the limited space available. The children who came to her school were kids of couples with transferable jobs/ those looking for a foreign assignment and others who had no plans of staying long in the city and hence didnt want to pay huge donations in a big school.
She said it was too much to expect dedication in teachers these days owing to the poor salaries they got unlike in the IT/BPO sectors. A dedicated teacher was only 1 in 10. Never realised education in Chennai was such a dicey affair.
p.s. Ash has another bout of viral fever and we spent much of yesterday night sponging him to keep the temp down.
p.p.s. Mira's vaccination has been postponed to next month, on the doctor's advice, as she is just recovering from a viral infection (mumps) .