Shri Radha Krishna Academy High School

If you find yourself on Jhadipath Mandir Road in Shikarpur, you’ll see our gates. We’ve been running this high school here in Bulandshahr for quite some time now. It gets busy in the mornings when the buses arrive and kids are running around trying to get to class before the bell rings. The building isn't brand new, but it's where we spend most of our days. Teachers are usually busy with stacks of notebooks, and there is always someone looking for a lost pen or a missing textbook. We try to keep the courtyard tidy, though with so many students, it’s a bit of a challenge sometimes. During the afternoons, the sun hits the classrooms on the upper floor and it gets a little warm, but we have the fans going. Most of us here grew up in this area or nearby, so we know the families pretty well. It’s not a fancy setup, just a regular school where we do our work and the students do theirs. Sometimes the electricity goes out and we have to open all the windows wide to catch a breeze. We have a small playground out back where the grass grows a bit too fast in the rainy season. It’s just how things are around here. We open up early and stay until the last kid heads home down the road toward the main part of town. It’s a lot of noise and a lot of books, every single day.