Gopal Ram Jat Senior Secondary School

Gopal Ram Jat Senior Secondary School is located in Bherunda, which is in the Nagaur district with the pin code 341031. This is a rural area, so our school serves a lot of children from the surrounding farming families. The building is fairly large because we have students all the way up to the senior secondary level. It’s a sturdy structure, though it looks a bit plain from the outside and could probably use a new coat of paint. We have a big open ground where the kids play sports and where we hold the morning prayers. Since it’s Nagaur, it’s often very dry and the wind blows a lot of sand into the classrooms, so cleaning is a never-ending job for our staff. Inside, the rooms are wide and have big windows to let in the air, though we don't have air conditioning, just basic ceiling fans that hum all day. Our desks are the heavy metal and wood kind that have lasted a long time. The teachers here are mostly from the local villages, and some of them actually studied here when they were younger, which is nice to see. We don’t have much in the way of high-end lab equipment, but we have enough for the basic science experiments required for the school exams. Most of our students travel quite a distance to get here, some by bus and others on cycles. It’s a quiet place for most of the day until the lunch break or when the final bell rings and everyone heads home across the fields.