A Parent Asked a Question That No School Brochure Could Answer A few months ago, a parent visiting The Bangalore School asked a question that quietly stayed with me long after the conversation ended. The parent wasn’t asking about fees. The parent wasn’t asking about curriculum. The parent wasn’t asking about infrastructure, phonics, handwriting, or …

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“Children are not good at pretending. If they feel small, they show it. If they feel powerful, they show that too.” A mother stood outside the preschool gate long after the school day had ended. She wasn’t waiting for her child. Her child had already run out of the classroom twenty minutes earlier, proudly carrying …

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The Question Many Parents Are Beginning to Ask — But Few Feel Comfortable Saying Aloud A few decades ago, childhood had an unusual feature that is becoming increasingly rare today. It had empty spaces. Children came home from school and disappeared into neighbourhoods. They built imaginary worlds from cardboard boxes. They invented games with rules …

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