B J D Patel High School

You can find us in Petlad, over in the Anand district. B J D Patel High School has been standing here for quite some time. It’s a solid structure that has housed many students over the years. We aren’t a new, shiny school with glass walls. We are a traditional high school where the focus is on the classroom and the textbooks. The morning starts with everyone arriving on cycles or walking from the nearby neighborhoods. Petlad is a decent-sized town, so we stay pretty busy. The rooms are high-ceilinged and keep fairly cool even when the weather gets hot in the summer. We have a staff room where the teachers sit and grade papers during their free periods. It’s a very routine sort of place. We follow the state curriculum and make sure the students are ready for their tests. There’s always something to fix, like a leaky tap or a broken desk, but that’s just part of running an old building. We don’t go in for big speeches or marketing. We just let the parents know when enrollment is open and then we get to work. The atmosphere is generally calm, though it gets a bit hectic during exam season. It’s just a place of learning for the local community here in Petlad. We do our work and the students do theirs, and that's how the days go by year after year without much fuss. It's just a part of the town's furniture, really.