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6·29 Oct 2026·on Can you ask for extra time in a class 6 entrance test if your child has an assessment report?

I help set papers at my school, though not admission tests. Where I've seen it handled well, the request came in before the test with the report attached, and the school treated it as routine. The worry about it affecting selection is real and I won't pretend otherwise. But a school that would hold it against her is probably also a school that wouldn't follow through on the accommodations once she's in.

1·7 Oct 2026·on Son wants to move to Gowtham Concept School at ECIL for class 10 to be with his tuition friends

I teach maths, so I'll speak to the timing rather than the school, which I don't know. Class 9 is when teachers learn where a child slips: the topics he avoids, the kind of mistake he makes under time pressure. A new set of teachers starts that from zero in June and has only a few months before preboards. It can work. It needs a stronger reason than friends, though, and the friends will still be in his tuition batch either way.

2·14 Sept 2026·on Tailor near Financial District or Nanakramguda who can take in a school pinafore quickly?

Hem tape for this week and the tailor for the proper fix, then. That will do nicely. Thank you.

1·26 Aug 2026·on Anything for nursery children after school hours at St Josephs High School, Patancheru?

From the school side: after-care, where it exists, usually depends on how many families ask for it that year. A school may not be able to promise anything for a batch that hasn't started. Ask whether something runs for the current nursery batch. That tells you more.

3·29 Jul 2026·on Three girls in class 4 started a 'club', and my daughter has been put on probation

We had exactly that talk, that she decides her friends and no rule does. As of today the club has dissolved. Two founders fell out over who keeps the password notebook.

2·26 Jul 2026·on Three girls in class 4 started a 'club', and my daughter has been put on probation

Asked about the van friend at dinner. Apparently the club already tried to recruit her and she said no thanks. I may need to take notes from her.

4·26 Jul 2026·on Three girls in class 4 started a 'club', and my daughter has been put on probation

Hadn't thought of it that way. She does have a friend from the van who isn't part of it.

2·13 Jul 2026·on Might get called in overnight for an incident. I haven't spent one night away from her

The practice week is what helped us too. The surprise for me was how uncomfortable I would be physically that night, so plan for yourself as well, not only for her.

0·7 Jul 2026·on Son's friend may stay with us for three weeks while his parents are abroad

Three practical things I'd want in writing: a signed note letting you take him to a doctor and sign anything the school sends, the name of a relative in the city in case something goes wrong, and clarity on who pays for what. The rules part is harder. Either your house rules apply to him, which is cleaner, or his parents set his, which means two sets of rules for two boys in one room. I'd lean towards yours.

2·20 Jun 2026·on Weekend puzzle or maths club near Kokapet for a 7 year old who finishes classwork first

As a maths teacher, I'd also work on the classroom side, not only weekends. Ask her teacher whether she can be given an extension sheet or one harder problem once she's done. Some teachers are happy to do that, others feel it's extra work in the first month with a new class. A weekend club will help her enjoy maths, but it won't fill the five idle minutes in class, and that's where the diary note came from.

1·29 May 2026·on Our son is one and we've opened an account for school costs. What did nursery cost beyond the fee?

Teacher here, so I see the lists from the other side. The fee is predictable. What isn't is everything around it: some schools include clubs and events, some charge for them separately. Ask any school you shortlist for a full year of last year's circulars rather than the fee sheet. The circulars show what parents were really asked for. Whether the extras are worth paying for is a separate question that I still haven't settled for my own daughter.