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On why "neighbourhood" should be the only criterion in school admissions
1. Distance from the school is the only criterion that affects a child physically. No other criterion affects the child physically. Criteria like siblings, transferable jobs, awardee parents, single parent and so on are just discriminatory.
2. If more children are sent to neighbourhood schools, all neighbourhood schools would have a chance to develop.
3. Eventually, people would become "proximity" conscious than "brand" conscious.
4. Siblings would stand a greater chance of getting into the same school as they will also qualify for the neighbourhood points like their siblings.
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Permalink Reply by Neeraj gupta on
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@ Sandeep - Great Thought I am with you on this point.
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You may be willing to let your child travel 50 km a day thinking you are doing something special but some people would call it extremist, inconsiderate, and amounting to cruelty toward the child. I am not the one to talk about developed countries or share examples from developed countries proclaiming them as best practices (as best practices are unique to each nation and its ethos) but I am tempted to say try explaining this to Child Welfare in Germany and they'll promptly 'correct' your mindset. No offence.
I want to send my child to a not so good school near my home. I don't want my child to be pressurized until the primary schooling is over. I am not trying to pick cherries here. I am just concerned about the physical stress of my child. And this points system is not allowing me to even be considered for admission.
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Permalink Reply by Sandeep on
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Shiv I am just making this point since I feel the distance only criteria is also inappropriate and can be termed discriminatory
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Dear Shiv,
Your thoughts may be right according to your circumstances, Are you ready to send your kid to a govt. school or a school not even marginally good ?
If yes, then why are u crying for criteria or distance. Every locality have govt. schools or primary school send your kind there and keep pressure free.
If No, Then let the schools have there own criteria, because this criteria is making these schools good schools, More they are bound they will become govt. schools.
So either no criteria or all criteria.
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What circumstances are you talking about? Me living near a decent school? And I am not talking about a government school. Is this circumstance unique to me?
You do not live near a school?
You want your kid to go to a 'very good' school. So you are seeking a premium education for your kid and you want all parents like me (and yourself) to suffer for it?
Neighbourhood criterion is fair. Some seats reserved for local children. Remaining opened for children from distant areas. Anyone who applies should have the same chance of success and the same chance of failure.
Also, the neighbourhood criterion already exists. Ganguly committee did think about the child's welfare. Distance does affect the child physically.
I would say one thing though. It's better to have no criteria at all than to have the current points system maintained. Not having distance as a criterion is nearly not as unfair as having the current unfair criteria put back in place.
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@ Shiv
I asked you some questions but you didn't replied. You came up with new argument why parents like you suffer.
How many decent schools you have in your locality? And tell me how many prospective students are there? What you mean by decent school?
Distance criteria fits to your need so your are okay, let other people suffer. What a weird logic?
You talking about US or Germany , you know what are the size of Neighborhoods in these countries. Also all school are equally good , thats why every one is going to neighborhoods.
Tell me one thing why should be distance a criteria? why not traveling time be a criteria? As you are talking about physical stress, I think stress comes from traveling time not distance. Please Rethink
May be traveling 6 Km takes 25 mins and traveling 3 Km in other direction takes 40 minutes. And it happens in city like Delhi.
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@neeraj. We have this categorisation of 'decent' and 'faaltu' schools only because we do not follow the 'area only' concept. Once 'area only' concept is followed, all schools will become 'prestigious' because the influential and moneyed people will be forced to send their kids to neighbourood schools. We Indians work best under pressure.
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Akshat, this is an important aspect of the neighbourhood criterion that the "status quo" folks cannot see.
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it is not money or inflential peoples ward who makes a good school... but the faculty..the teachers who imaprts the education & this is what is important
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In India, it is money and influence which bring quality teachers and education. Read my comment on the last pages to understand this logic
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Mr. Gupta, please read my comments on other forums and you'll get to know what I have to say.
But let me provide you a simple explanation of decent. By decent, I mean a school that can provide a nurturing environment for my child to grow. I am not hunting for brand names. Neither am I willing to send my child to a two-room shack with a toilet in the backyard. A decent school with students from decent, honest, middle class families. A school with adequate if not great infrastructure. An ample ground for my child to run. Teachers that can teach. I am not looking for an AC school. I am not looking for a 5-star hotel experience. That's what I mean by decent.
Traveling time is a great point. But isn't traveling time a variable factor?
As for my comments about US and Germany, please read carefully, you are actually using my arguments as counter-arguments.
Proximity to the school should be a factor in the admission process. There is no other way about it. It may not be a huge factor. But it should be a factor.
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@Shiv.................And what should be solution if in my neighborhood all the schools are very expensive and I can not afford their fees but beyond some distance suppose beyond 5-10 KM there are some schools which are equally good or sometimes better and also with appropriate fees which I can afford for my ward.
In this case I will get seat in expensive school which I can not afford and I will not get chance in school which is as per my budget.
So government should also fix the fee structure that any school can demand for nursery.
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