Zilha Parishad Prathamik School

This school is located in a bit of a different spot, right in the basement of the Classic Homes Apartment near the Income Tax Office here in Aligarh. It might seem like an odd place for Zilha Parishad Prathamik School, but we make it work for the kids. Since we are a primary school, the halls are usually filled with younger children from the surrounding neighborhoods. It gets a bit crowded sometimes, especially when parents are dropping them off in the morning near the apartment entrance. We have the standard classrooms set up with whatever furniture we’ve managed to gather over the years. The walls have some charts and drawings the kids made in their art classes. Being near the Income Tax Office means there's always a lot of traffic and people moving around outside, but inside we just focus on the lessons. The teachers here have a lot of patience, which you need when dealing with twenty or thirty small children at once. We don't have a big field, so the kids play where they can in the space we have. It’s a government-run place, so things move at a certain pace with the paperwork. We handle the mid-day meals and the daily attendance without much fuss or ceremony. It’s just a local school doing its thing in a busy part of Aligarh. Everyone knows the spot once you mention the apartments. We just keep going day by day, making sure the students learn what they need.