Jagruti Vidyalaya

Our school, Jagruti Vidyalaya, sits on Sanand Road in the Sarkhej area of Ahmedabad. It’s a busy part of town these days with all the new construction going on around us. Despite all the changes in the city, the school stays pretty much the same. We have a set of classrooms that wrap around a central area where the kids gather. The noise from the road is always there in the background, but we don't mind it much anymore. The teachers here have a lot of work to do, keeping up with all the students and their different needs. We use simple blackboards and standard desks. There’s nothing flashy about our setup. We have a small office near the front where we keep all the records in big paper files. It’s a bit dusty, especially when the wind picks up from the road. Most of our students live nearby in Sarkhej and walk to school every morning. They bring their lunches in metal tins and eat together under the shade when it’s hot. We don’t have a big mission statement on the wall; we just try to get through the syllabus and make sure everyone learns what they need to. Sometimes the bell is a bit late because someone forgot to ring it, but we get by. It’s just a regular school trying to do right by the local families who trust us with their children.