Provision of quality education, a felt need for the Nagra Block in the seventies was met with the opening of B.B Ram high School Nagra by a visionery Binda Banarsi Ram. Designated as “Torch Bearer in the region” by the National Department of Education, this sixth to +2 grade school serves approximately 1000 students with 35 classroom teachers. The teaching methods and philosophies vary widely from
teacher to teacher. Most of the teachers employ progressive methods, though to quite different extremes. The school wide curriculum is not rigidly enforced, thus, teachers have time for both independent projects and creative methods. In addition to its classroom teachers, the school has a strong group of support teachers and non-classroom staff. All staff members are in constant contact and collaboration with respect to students and learning environments. The neighborhoods that are zoned middle and lower middle-class, and include a college town. Only a small handful of students in the school qualified for free or reduced school lunch. While there are students representing minority groups in a large a range of ethnic identities, a majority of the students are Aryans. Within in my own classroom of 100 Students, 40 students were Muslims and rest were Hindu's which shows the cultural integrations . Most students in the school are involved in extracurricular activities, playing sports activities including football, soccer, basketball, and hockey, and playing musical instruments. Many of the students are engaged in at least two different activities outside of school. In general, these students are looking to succeed, and in the sixth grade all already concerned with the grades they are receiving on tests and papers. In general, the students come to school the expectation that they will succeed in school. Whether they are volunteering for school trips, helping in a classroom party, or bringing in something that their child forget, parents figure strongly in the day-to-day life of the school. They also wield a lot of power over teachers and administrators with their not infrequent requests of changes in curriculum and methods. While teachers can be overhead complaining about resources at the school, the school is rich in both material and people resources. Most of the children in my class were above standers level in reading and students are motivated to learn before they set foot in the classroom.
