Little Star'S Junior High School

Down on Janmbhumilink Road in Mathura, you’ll see our school right in Sector 3. Even though the address says Odisha, we are firmly planted here in this busy part of town. It’s a junior high, so the kids are at that age where they are starting to grow up but still have plenty of energy. The mornings start early with the sound of whistles and kids lining up for their morning routine. We have a modest building that faces the road, and sometimes the traffic noise gets a bit loud during the peak hours. Inside, the classrooms are filled with the usual stuff like maps on the walls and stacks of notebooks on the teachers' desks. We don’t have anything too fancy, just the basics that a school needs to function every day. The playground gets a lot of use during the short breaks, and you can usually hear the kids from a block away. We spend a lot of time talking to parents at the gate or fixing things that get broken during the day. It’s a hands-on kind of place. We know most of the kids by name, and their siblings too. By the time the final bell rings in the afternoon, we are all pretty tired, but then we do it all over again the next day. It’s just how life is at a local school like ours, dealing with the daily chaos and the heat.