School Tragedy
It has happened once again. A 4-year old kid was killed by a school van and four others badly injured. See http://www.deccan.com/home/homedetails.asp#4-yr-old%20crushed%20to%20death.
The Deccan Chronicle carries a moving picture of a traumatised kid who saw his friend killed.
The adminstrators of this "Great City" have always shown more generosity with land when it comes to garish marriage function halls (wedding gardens as they are called) and corporate IT parks. But just look at the state of the schools. Most of them are spilling into the roads. No regulation whatsoever on building design and location. The so-called international schools are well endowed anyway and serve a small section of the soceity.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has its own fleet of buses but their on-campus parking slots are not exactly kid-safe. A lot of BVB kids use private cars and autorickshaws that are not allowed inside the school. Same is the case with DPS in Bowenpally, Secunderabad. Am sure there are other examples.
Sadly St. Ann's School is one of the better know convent schools in Secunderbad. But it too lacks facility inside the campus for school buses to park and children to safely board or alight. In fact, am not sure if St Anns has its own fleet of school buses even. Which is why parents depend on private transport and autorickshaws to get their children to school and back.
Visit these schools when they are out and you will see a perfect recipe for disaster waiting to happen -- common to see children trying to cross the road on their own, no attendants in sight, haphazardly parked vehicles, over-packed autorickshaws with kids sharing seats even with the driver, school vans vying for road-space to pick up the kids.
But it is in our modern tradition to ignore the needs of children, and old people, anyway. Guess we are living for the present.
The Deccan Chronicle carries a moving picture of a traumatised kid who saw his friend killed.
The adminstrators of this "Great City" have always shown more generosity with land when it comes to garish marriage function halls (wedding gardens as they are called) and corporate IT parks. But just look at the state of the schools. Most of them are spilling into the roads. No regulation whatsoever on building design and location. The so-called international schools are well endowed anyway and serve a small section of the soceity.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has its own fleet of buses but their on-campus parking slots are not exactly kid-safe. A lot of BVB kids use private cars and autorickshaws that are not allowed inside the school. Same is the case with DPS in Bowenpally, Secunderabad. Am sure there are other examples.
Sadly St. Ann's School is one of the better know convent schools in Secunderbad. But it too lacks facility inside the campus for school buses to park and children to safely board or alight. In fact, am not sure if St Anns has its own fleet of school buses even. Which is why parents depend on private transport and autorickshaws to get their children to school and back.
Visit these schools when they are out and you will see a perfect recipe for disaster waiting to happen -- common to see children trying to cross the road on their own, no attendants in sight, haphazardly parked vehicles, over-packed autorickshaws with kids sharing seats even with the driver, school vans vying for road-space to pick up the kids.
But it is in our modern tradition to ignore the needs of children, and old people, anyway. Guess we are living for the present.
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