Vidyarambam children surprised the police officers with questions

Our Model School at Nagapattinam arranged visits for our Class ! and 2 children to the Police station, Post office, District Library and a Vegetable shop to gain first hand knowledge about the functioning of these units.

At the Police Station, the children asked many questions as to ‘why do they have jail, why the jail is very small, where are the lathis, why someone is wearing stars on their shoulders while others don’t have, why do they not wear the caps, why a constable is having a big belly,  what the writer keeps on writing non-stop etc. etc.’   The police officer on duty and other staff patiently and kindly answered all the questions and in appreciation of the children’s courage to face and ask them freely whatever occurred to their minds gave the children chocolates.

Next visit to the Post office made the post master and the staff and also a few public who had come there for some transaction wonderstruck to observe the way the small kids went about making queries and learning what is what.  A class 2 student was put to challenge by the postal staff to calculate and tell how stamp to be affixed to a letter which weighed 100 grams.  The boy did it and the postmaster would not believe it.

Next was the District Library.  When the Vidyarambam tutor explained to them that every one who enters the library must register his / her name first, all the children insisted that they would like to ink the register with their names.  They all were allowed to write their names.

They were shown by the librarian and his assistants how the books are arranged and the records maintained for lending the book for readers.   The children were keen to see the section of  children books and were delighted to see many titles with attractive pictures.

Finally they paid a visit to a Vegetable shop where they learnt where from does the shopkeeper get the supplies, how do they weigh the vegetables, which ones are weighed and which vegetables  are being quoted on counts.

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