Wednesday, October 22, 2008

School Admission Woes

This is my second innings at treading on my heels from school to school to collect their admission forms for nursery admission. This time the child in question is Darsh. Vasu's turn was attended with much more enthusiasm and optimism. I had high hopes and dreamt of getting him inside schools like Mirambika and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya... all in vain. The point system punctured all my hopes of bagging the right school for Vasu, singlehandedly.
My fancies were soon shattered and I woke awake broad-eyed with a jolt of bitter reality. The following year again saw me applying and re-applying to the schools I admire. Sigh! No breakthroughs. But I was not the worst case of the lots. Many parents had to go through a much more tumultuous time. I was in a way a lucky instance. My infatuation with Sardar Patel Vidyalaya has not still exhausted and I have again approached the school, third year in a row, to consider my case considerately. Meanwhile, my constraints and my fancy with a particular school does not make any sense to Vasu and Darsh. They also quite do not know, let alone understand, the persistent sandstorm in my mind that has been blinding me for quite some time now.