Daughter wants to move to a 'dummy' school for class 12 to focus on coaching

olive_chai_71375 May 2026

Several of her friends are shifting to schools where you're enrolled but barely attend, so they can be at coaching all day for the entrance exams. Our daughter wants to do the same for class 12. She's happy at her current school, but she calls the school day 'wasted hours'. I'm uneasy. Attendance rules, losing her friends in the final year, the whole day becoming one coaching centre. But I do see her point about time. Has anyone's child done this? What did it look like by December?

3 comments

plum_kettle_34265 May 2026
Not yet for us, my daughter is younger. But two of my colleagues' children did this. One loved it. The other was lonely by October and missed the school events far more than she had expected. The difference seemed to be whether the coaching centre had a real peer group or only rows of strangers.
dusk_paper_44296 May 2026
We are two years away, but the same conversation has already started in my daughter's class. I keep coming back to attendance. Does anyone know how strictly this is checked for these schools? And would she still do her practicals at the school?
- silver_quilt_3376 May 2026
  I'm in school administration myself, for what it's worth. Attendance rules apply on paper, and schools are expected to keep proper records. How a particular school handles that is between them and the board, and I would not rely on anyone's assurance that 'it's all fine'. Practicals and internal assessment still happen at the school, so she would need to be there for those whatever the arrangement.
- umber_tiffin_12066 May 2026
  Replying to @silver_quilt_337
  That's the bit families don't hear from the coaching side. Our son's friends found out their practical dates a week before. Bahut tension tha.
velvet_gecko_54687 May 2026
my daughter's friend did this last year. she said the hardest part wasn't the studying, it was eating lunch alone at the centre. small thing but it stayed with me.