My First "Parent Meeting"

June 5, 2010

Wow....I must say it was a very very unique experience to attend first parent teacher interaction meeting at Rutuja's school.

The school authorities gave all the right signals to start with. They assured all the parents that kids are in absolutely safe hands. They explained the curriculum and went on to explain how they will be going about it. It was very satisfying experience listening to those talks. A small session of meditation also helped a great deal in settling the goose bumps of many parents.

The teachers , whole lot of them around 15-20 also sang couple of songs & danced on those songs. This was just to demonstrate what the school activities would be like. Teachers also asked us, the parents to join them in singing & dancing. It was a good fun.

Then the floor was thrown open for the queries and questions from parents. The parents were a mixed lot. Some of them have come alone like me, some of them with their kid, some of them were both mom n dad, some of them with their grandparents.

Only commonality between all of us was we all were very nervous, very anxious, very enthusiastic. Many of us were first time parents who would be sending their kids to school. So it was a very common feeling for most of us. Understandably every body wanted to ensure that their wards will get the best of facilities along with best of environment.

Questions ranged from absolutely useless to very intelligent. But all of them were very informative. I left the session 15 minutes ahead of the closure to finish school dress shopping & fees for bus transport.

I did not realize the start of another new innings. Now I am a father of a school going child. Wow that sounds really nice :-)

I returned home with a very satisfied feeling that I have made a good decision to get Rutuja into this school. I hope that feeling will last till my sweetie pie finishes her schooling.