Sri Sai Saraswathi Vidyakendra is the private school that we have selected for our kids. The school has classes from tiny tots (three yeas of age, which means our little ones also attend school) up to 10th grade. Ideally located, our kids walk to and from school daily. The school provides a comprehensive curriculum, and each child was tested for proper placement during the admission interview.

Most of our kids lacked sufficient tutoring and education until last year, and have been put back a grade or two. We supported this decision, as it will allow them to learn at their proper levels. And some of them are already catching up to where they should be.

Since we believe that education is key to a child being able to improve his or her own life, we provide all of our kids with after-school tutors. The tutors are trained, experienced teachers that come five days a week for two hours a day, to help the kids with their homework and lesson plans.

The school system for poor kids in India is a challenge; often, children are promoted to the next level without having learned enough to merit such promotion. Schools are not allowed to "fail" or hold students back a grade even though that may be in the child's best interest.

In government schools (mostly attended by poor kids), teachers often fail to show up, and are rarely paid on time. Many poor children arrive at 10th grade, only to fail the statewide examination at that point. Once they fail, they have no other options for continuing, or catching up on, their education. We are endeavoring to prevent this from happening to our kids.

Please visit our site often and our Blog for continuous updates on how the kids are doing in school.