No admission without donation
During my pregnancy, my sister-in-law from Kolkata asked me how much donation is required for school admissions in your city? I honestly informed her about my ignorance on this subject matter and just few days thereafter read an advertisement of a school that highlighted the fact that they don't take donations. I was assured that I will not have to dig a hole in our pockets for the admission of our yet to be born child.
When T was 2 years old, we inquired in half a dozen schools and came to know that donation is an old fashioned term and the new terms used in the market were
Admission fee (huge and non refundable),
Security deposit (meagre and hence partly refundable) and
Tuition Fee (astronomical and of course non refundable).
All this did not include cost of uniform, books and transport which had to be forcibly bought from fixed vendors allowing them to grow richer every year.
One year tuition fee in most of the schools was equivalent to four years of Engineering fee for merit students of our generation. This was not just going to dig a hole in our pockets but a crater in our savings account! This revelation was good enough source of inspiration for me to not quit my job early to see my kid grow up.
Advice from elders in the family to start saving/ investing, suddenly started making sense and appeared not so easy as we thought when we were independent care-free youth born to enjoy life. All of a sudden we became grown up adults with lot of responsibilities and realized that with power comes great responsibility but its reverse is not true.
T's school admission was done without any hassle (as we managed the fees) and till date (touching wood) I don't regret my choice of school for her. The school, the teachers, the education is all up to the mark. Its just the annual fee payment time that makes me bit uncomfortable.
P.S. Some WhattsApp one liners on this that I loved:
Contraception is the second most effective way to curb population; the first one being school fees.
A parent is born with the birth of a child and the parent becomes responsible person with the child's school admission.
When T was 2 years old, we inquired in half a dozen schools and came to know that donation is an old fashioned term and the new terms used in the market were
Admission fee (huge and non refundable),
Security deposit (meagre and hence partly refundable) and
Tuition Fee (astronomical and of course non refundable).
All this did not include cost of uniform, books and transport which had to be forcibly bought from fixed vendors allowing them to grow richer every year.
One year tuition fee in most of the schools was equivalent to four years of Engineering fee for merit students of our generation. This was not just going to dig a hole in our pockets but a crater in our savings account! This revelation was good enough source of inspiration for me to not quit my job early to see my kid grow up.
Advice from elders in the family to start saving/ investing, suddenly started making sense and appeared not so easy as we thought when we were independent care-free youth born to enjoy life. All of a sudden we became grown up adults with lot of responsibilities and realized that with power comes great responsibility but its reverse is not true.
T's school admission was done without any hassle (as we managed the fees) and till date (touching wood) I don't regret my choice of school for her. The school, the teachers, the education is all up to the mark. Its just the annual fee payment time that makes me bit uncomfortable.
P.S. Some WhattsApp one liners on this that I loved:
Contraception is the second most effective way to curb population; the first one being school fees.
A parent is born with the birth of a child and the parent becomes responsible person with the child's school admission.
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