Pune school soars from brink of closure to fame

The school has hogged the global limelight after being shortlisted among the top 10 contenders for the prestigious 'World's Best School Prize' for Community Collaboration

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

With just three students, the future appeared bleak for a government school in Maharashtra's Pune district in 2022 as the authorities toyed with the idea of closing it down.

Then, the unthinkable happened after Dattatray Ware, a national award-winning teacher, was shunted to the Zilla Parishad school in the nondescript Jalindarnagar of Khed tehsil following some controversy.

Three years on, the school has hogged the global limelight after being shortlisted among the top 10 contenders for the prestigious 'World's Best School Prize' for Community Collaboration.

Ware, fondly called Guruji, remains the axis of the remarkable turnaround of the school, which now has over 120 students. He has introduced many innovative teaching practices, including the 'Subject Friend' system, a peer-learning model where students of different ages teach and learn from each other.