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Applications at 20 schools, kid's name figures in none

New Delhi, March 8, 2016, DHNS:

Nursery admission system discriminatory: Parents

With the process for nursery admissions coming to an end, some children could not make it to the selected list of any of the schools, even after applying to 20 different places.

While some parents were elated as their children made it to the list of various schools, some were left dejected as their wards’ names did not appear even in the second lists at schools.

Point system
The parents alleged that the point system was “discriminatory” and did not work in their favour.

Shahid Salam, a resident of Okhla, had applied to various schools like Cambridge, Kalka Public School, Tagore International, Blu Bells, Hamdard, DAV School, etc but could not secure a seat for his kid, Sadiq — the second-born.

“We only got points in neighbourhood criteria and there were only three schools within one to two km. Rest of the points were reserved for either girl child, alumni, first-born or siblings. Parents like us have a disadvantage,” he said.

Similarly, Monika Gupta, a resident of Jangpura, had applied to 20 schools for her child.

Pinning hopes
She was pinning her hopes on the second list, but said the schools did not issue a fresh list and cleared names of children in the first waiting list.

Though she had the benefit of ‘first-born’ points but still could not get a seat for her child.
“The whole process is so tedious and it is painful when in the end you are left with nothing,” she said. Since the process will end on March 31, Monika is keeping her fingers crossed.

“I am praying that he (son) gets a call from at least one school before that. Otherwise, we only have the option of sending him to a small school nearby and then again try next year for KG,” she said.

Education activist Sumit Vohra, who is also the founder of admissionsnursery.com, an online portal for the parent community, said, “We have many parents who are going to Noida and Gurgaon as they could not get admission anywhere near their residences. Many three-year-olds will be forced to commute for two hours for their school. The point system mostly favoured sibling and alumni”.

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Permalink Reply by Sapna Giya on March 8, 2016 at 12:06pm

Nursery process is indeed tedious and mind boggling..

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on March 8, 2016 at 12:17pm

Yes and schools discrminatory points make it more tough

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Permalink Reply by HARNEET SINGH SETHI on March 8, 2016 at 12:16pm

Ridiculous point system... We too faced similar problem as in north Delhi school except for one school,all schools preferred girl child, alumni, sibiling category candidates. Where first born male child will get admission?

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Permalink Reply by Meenu Bhutani on March 8, 2016 at 12:20pm

Very true!! I am also facing the same problem my twin daughters could not secure even a single seat in any school.

There needs to be a centralised system to see that every child gets atleast short listed into one school near by . Alumni and siblings system is not working for majority of the parents. Schools responses are even more pathetic where in they expect parents to reach the school premises just to know avail of seats at 6 AM or even for complete night to see the status of available seats instead of waiting for school to open next morning/ OR displaying on school site.

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Permalink Reply by Rushu on March 8, 2016 at 12:24pm

Inspite of having sibling case stilll my son didnot selected in the school

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Permalink Reply by puru on March 8, 2016 at 12:28pm

also facing same problem, I applied around 24 school for janakpuri, vikaspuri and dwarka and didnt get my son name in any list :( ,

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on March 8, 2016 at 12:37pm

Dear All

In West/North Delhi PP Int Pitampura Has vacancy -Nursery onwards

In South delhi - Paul George Global School Alaknanda/G D Goenka Sarita Vihar has vacancy - Nursery Onwards

In Central Delhi -Elizabeth Gauba has vacancy Nursery Onwards

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Permalink Reply by Arti jain on March 8, 2016 at 12:33pm

This is due to Unfair point system.

- There points for Alumni should be eliminated.
- Points for sibling should be equivalent to points to First Born.
- No points for Girl child as there are so many schools which offer admission only for girls.

Then only a person belongs to general category will get a chance for the admission of their ward.
Even if they allot 1 point for alumni, then also we'll loose admission for our child as even if our child secure 99 points out of 100. alumni will get preference due to the score of 100