Sonepat, March 28
With the harvest season approaching fast, the teachers and staff of private schools have started campaigns in the villages to ensure maximum enrolment of students in their respective schools.
Not only private schools in urban areas, teachers of private primary and middle schools being run in chaupals or rented houses in the villages are also knocking at the doors of houses to convince parents to get their child or children enrolled in their schools.
While teachers of private schools in villages remain confine themselves to the same village or at the most in one or two adjacent villages, to teachers and management of urban private schools, all the villages on the main roads leading to the towns are targets.
Teams of teachers of these schools are seen knocking at every door pleading with parents to enrol their children in their own schools by highlighting the achievements, facilities provided and the results of previous examinations. They reportedly carry with them the comparative statements of fees and other dues being charged by the management of other schools with an aim to convince that the expenses are minimum if their schools are chosen.
Interestingly, admissions in private schools will commence in the beginning of April whereas the government schools will open their admissions in May. By that time, as observed by retired teachers, the brilliant students would take enrolment in private schools and only those students who are either rejected by
