Most of us have a very clear picture of what a classroom looks like. Rows of desks facing a board. A teacher at the front.

Walk into most schools and the age-sorting is immediate and total. Every child born between two specific dates is placed with every other child born

The conversation usually begins sometime around Grade 8 or 9. Your child is in a Cambridge IGCSE school. Things are going reasonably well. And then

There is a conversation that happens in Indian households every year, usually around exam season. A child comes home from cricket practice, or swimming training,

You have made the decision. Or you are close to making it. Something about your child’s current school is not working, not dramatically, not in

There is a question parents almost never ask when they are choosing a school. They ask about the curriculum. They ask about the fees. They

Ask most parents how their child’s homework time goes and you will hear some version of the same story. There is a snack. There is

There are two parents at every school gate. The first checks the homework planner every evening, reviews every piece of work before it is submitted,

The term gets used a lot. Progressive school. Progressive approach. Progressive curriculum. But ask ten parents what it means and you will likely get ten

It is a question that most parents navigate by instinct, guided by their own upbringing, their anxieties about their child’s future, and the unspoken competition