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Teaching ethics in schools From the Principal’s Desk

Students need moral education to help them resist the ever present appeal to narrow self- interest. They need it to enable them to find their way between the tyranny of unquestionable moral codes and the bankruptcy of individualistic moral values. They need it to help them engage productivity across their differences rather than habitually responding to difference with suspicion or prejudice. On the larger scale and over the long term our society needs it in order to sow the seeds of a healthy way of life in such things as politics, law, business and industrial Ms. Neeru Nayyer relations.

Selfishness, dogmatism, prejudice and mutual antagonism – such things are in plentiful supply in our society and we should not pretend otherwise. Yet rather than empathize with one another as if there is nothing to be done, we can help to bring about improvement through moral education.

We need to teach students to develop good skills of judgment. We need to teach students to resolve differences amongst each other through discussions rather than enjoy in personal attacks; to develop the habit of becoming more communicative and inclusive. Such a habit formation shall help build a more morally intelligent society.

Marks out Subject Student name of 100 English Neha Parikh 95 Hindi Kunal Shah 96 Math Hiral Gandhi 99 Commercial Maher Doshi 99 I.C.S.E. 2014 RESULT Studies Vidhi Nandu 99 NO. OF STUDENTS APPEARED : 75 Science Kunal Shah 97 NO. OF STUDENTS PASSED : 75 Ashi Jagawat 100 HIGHEST PERCENTAGE : 96.83% Inara Rupani 100 SCHOOL AVERAGE PERCENTAGE : 88.57% Khubi Agrawal 100 Social Studies Percentage No. of students Kunal Shah 100 90% - 100% 40 Neha Parikh 100 Radhika Bajaj 100 80% - 89% 27 Env. Science Sameer Baria 96 70% - 79% 8 Aayushi Hingarh 94 60% - 69% - Art Shweta Divate 94 Yashvi Jain 94 Comp. Appl. Harsh Salvi 99 Phy. Edu. Kunal Shah 98 Vissanji Academy among Top 50 schools in and 7th position in city

Position in Total ICSE-2014 All Schools - All scores refer to the percentage score in English + the best National School Mumbai Number of four subjects Rank Average City Students

1 DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL,BANDRA,MUMBAI 1 94.667 30

2 MARBLE ARCH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 6 91.695 19 3 THE CATHEDRAL & JOHN CONNON SCHOOL,MUMBAI 8 91.144 143 4 GREENLAWNS HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 10 90.707 95 5 VILLA THERESA HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 11 90.367 97

6 BOMBAY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL,MUMBAI 14 90.185 13 7 LADY RATANBAI AND SIR MATHURADAS VISSANJI ACADEMY,MUMBAI 21 89.733 75 8 LOKHANDWALA FOUNDATION SCHOOL,MUMBAI 27 89.476 95 9 AVALON HEIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 29 89.391 45

10 MANECKJI COOPER EDUCATION TRUST SCHOOL,MUMBAI 32 89.223 139

11 J.B. PETIT HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 33 89.126 62 12 SMT.SULOCHANADEVI SINGHANIA SCHOOL,THANE 34 89.12 369 13 JAMNABAI NARSEE SCHOOL,JUHU,MUMBAI 41 88.754 278

14 HIRANANDANI FOUNDATION SCHOOL,POWAI,MUMBAI 43 88.676 134

15 VIBGYOR HIGH,GOREGAON(W),MUMBAI 44 88.663 92 16 QUEEN MARY SCHOOL,MUMBAI 50 88.414 69 17 GOPAL SHARMA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL,POWAI,MUMBAI 52 88.337 41 18 SMT. RAMDEVI SOBHRAJ BAJAJ ARYA VIDYA MANDIR,MUMBAI 53 88.294 85

19 CHATRABHUJ NARSEE MEMORIAL SCHOOL,MUMBAI 56 88.155 299 20 CHILDREN'S ACADEMY,ASHOK NAGAR,KANDIVALI(EAST),MUMBAI 59 87.94 40 21 BEACON HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 61 87.862 45 22 THE BAI AVABAI F.PETIT GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 63 87.812 65

23 ST. GREGORIOS HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 67 87.665 129

24 ST. MARY'S SCHOOL,MAZAGAON,MUMBAI 69 87.633 121 25 HIRANANDANI FOUNDATION SCHOOL,THANE 70 87.611 200 26 VASUDEV C. WADHWA ARYA VIDYA MANDIR,BANDRA (EAST) 72 87.537 101 27 ARYA VIDYA MANDIR,BANDRA WEST,MUMBAI 75 87.376 93

28 SHISHUVAN ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL,MUMBAI 76 87.351 70 29 CHILDREN'S ACADEMY,THAKUR COMPLEX,KANDIVALI(EAST),MUMBAI 87 86.911 83 30 THE SCHOLAR HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 88 86.895 42 31 BOMBAY SCOTTISH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 91 86.81 240

32 N L DALMIA HIGH SCHOOL,DIST. THANE 97 86.617 141

33 WALSINGHAM HOUSE SCHOOL,MUMBAI 106 86.42 119 34 ACTIVITY HIGH SCHOOL,MUMBAI 107 86.403 72 35 CAMPION SCHOOL,MUMBAI 111 86.226 61 36 JASUDBEN M. L. SCHOOL,MUMBAI 122 86.058 100

37 SAS BILLABONG HIGH SCHOOL,MAHIM(W),MUMBAI 123 86.05 8 38 BOMBAY SCOTTISH SCHOOL, POWAI,MUMBAI 173 85.149 118 39 G. D. SOMANI MEMORIAL SCHOOL,MUMBAI 174 85.079 121 40 P.G. GARODIA SCHOOL (ICSE),MUMBAI 182 84.927 157

41 JANKIDEVI PUBLIC SCHOOL,MUMBAI 192 84.816 116

42 GUNDECHA EDUCATION ACADEMY,KANDIVLI (E),MUMBAI 195 84.813 171 43 THAKUR PUBLIC SCHOOL,KANDIVLI (E),MUMBAI 200 84.742 202

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KUNAL SHAH 96.83 %

HIRAL GANDHI VARUN LALA ASHI JAGAWAT RADHIKA BAJAJ URVI SHAH 96.17 % 95.67 % 95.67 % 95.67 % 95.33 %

MAHER DOSHI NEHA PARIKH DHAIRYA SHAH JOEL KURIAKOSE HARSH SALVI 95.17 % 95.17 % 94.83 % 94.5 % 94.17 %

JAHNAVI MEHTA SAMEER BARIA MANSI PANDYA KHUBI AGRAWAL POOJAN GOHIL 94 % 93.83 % 93.5 % 93.33 % 93.17 %

INARA RUPANI DHRUV SHAH YASHVI SHAH HIMANSHU GHOTGE VIDHI NANDU 92.67 % 92.50 % 92.50% 92.50% 92.50%

WHAT INDEPENDENCE MEANS TO US?

INDEPENDENCE the word suggests 15th of August for many is just another

that each & every person in the society holiday, the first of many over a long is free to perform each and every task festival season. It’s a day of putting a

he is capable and involved in. Liberty tricolor on our car bonnets and

matters in each & every person’s life. In changing our caller tunes to patriotic my life independence matters a lot. I songs like “Sare Jahan Se Accha....” sometimes think that what great spirits and other frivolous gestures. were all the inhabitants who lived the Sometimes the true value of the day is difficult life during the rule of the lost in our activities and holiday Britishers! Our nation got independence schedules. on August 15, 1947. In reality it should be the time to think The independence struggle was first about the freedom fighters who gave started by Mangal Pandey. Including up their families, their friends and him many great sprits like Mahatma sometimes their lives. “I am proud to Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. be an Indian”, why do we get this Rajendra Prasad, Queen of Jhansi & thought only on 15th August or 26th many more took initiative & led our January. What we should not forget is country towards the heaven of freedom. that Independence is not what we feel but what we make of it, Independence Today when I read the patriotic poems is not about our rights but our duties & stories written by the poets & authors towards the nation and most that time, tears come in my eyes & importantly Independence is having become refreshed. I won’t have been freedom without having to own it. It is able to take education, I would work, I having a freedom of choice of what I would not visit places & we all would be want to do and what I may do. puppets. So let’s thank all our freedom fighters & commemorate our 67th Indeed it is the most precious gift our Independence Day. forefathers have given us and we have to cherish and preserve it over all else.

Mst. Sahil Tatkare * Mst. Yazad Wankadia* Std. – VIII Std. – VII

st *The above articles were published in Quest, Indian Express dated 21 July 2014 All rights reserved! Vissanji Academy, Dr. Radhakrishnan Marg, Off Old Nagardas Road, East, Mumbai 400 069. Email : [email protected]