Does studying away from a major city limit a child's opportunities? Parents ask this often while shortlisting schools. Bigger cities are assumed to offer more exposure and a head start on the future. But how a child grows depends less on a city's size and more on the shape of an ordinary day, the pace, the people around them, the small freedoms they get. That shift in thinking is part of why schools in Pollachi have started drawing families who once looked only at Coimbatore
