An additional help to select the school?

This is the most important question for families with kids coming to Bangalore, all are ready to experience a new part of the world, also with some odd things, but with the education of the kids nobody want to play. And indeed that is correct and there are very good international schools in the City, but as every time in India the challenge is to find the right one. Price and quality are not every time in direct correlation, for others the new curriculum names are new and at the end there is no control body to check if the schools live up to their promises
given in nice marketing words, therefor it is a lot of work to run around, check and select. Normal is to ask first friends and colleagues, second source is often the Internet with its comments from others and in a final stage you have to run and see the schools of interest.

In the last years there have come up Internet portals to that topic. The most professional portal is www.thinkvidya.com. Over some years it has come up as a information platform and a forum to exchange experiences. The site is a professional platform with many schools of Bangalore, nicely search able through location and is checking around to be well informed. But most valuable is the chance to give and see comments about the schools from other parents and see the ranking of the schools. That allows to get some additional feedback about experiences of others. And if there are doubts, there is for sure a chance to start a discussion.

At the end comes the first hand experience through a visit of the school and a discussion with the principal. Best to do that during school time to get a feeling how the kid enjoy the school. With that you easily find out, if the headmaster has a vision, if it is alive and if the teachers and the infrastructure are in line with it. Motivated teachers, who enjoy their work within a supporting infraqstructure, and on the other side happy kids, who like the given chances, rules and possibilities, are for sure a good sign.