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‘Can’t allow schools to run like shops’ |NEW DELHI: Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday sought the dismissal of the petition filed by a Private Schools committee at the Delhi High Court.
‘Can’t allow schools to run like shops’
NEW DELHI: Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday sought the dismissal of the petition filed by a Private Schools committee at the Delhi High Court.
The petition was filed against last year’s guidelines for nursery admission in the Capital.
The L-G, in his response to the petition, said the private unaided schools were seeking “an undue privilege in the garb of autonomy in the matter of right to admit students of their own choice.” Jung said, “Commercialisation of education is prohibited; educational institutes cannot be allowed to run as teaching shops as the same would be detrimental to equal opportunity to children.”
The December 18, 2013 notification had cancelled the ‘management quota’ and introduced a point system, giving maximum credit to children residing within an 8-km radius of the school.
The court will continue to hear the L-G’s response on Tuesday. Earlier, the court had refused to stay the new norms for this year’s nursery admissions. But it had allowed private schools’ plea to be heard on merit at a later date.
Jung said, in the absence of criteria for nursery admissions, both parents and children are subjected to various screening procedures including written tests and interviews. Section 13 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 prohibits any kind of screening procedure for admission in schools including private unaided recognised schools. “Needless to say, the experience is not only traumatic for the children and their parents but also a pathway for corruption,” Jung said.
Can't let schools be run as 'teaching shops', LG tells court
Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung has defended his decision to cancel the "management quota" in the criteria for nursery school admissions, and told the Delhi High Court that "commercialisation of education" cannot be allowed.
Jung filed his response on a petition by the Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools against the December 2013 guidelines for nursery admission in the national capital. The matter will come for hearing
In his affidavit, Jung sought dismissal of the plea, saying: "Commercialisation of education is prohibited. Educational institutes cannot be allowed to run as 'teaching shops' as the same would be detrimental to equal opportunity to children."
The Dec 18, 2013, notification from the lt. governor cancelled the "management quota" and introduced a point system giving maximum credit to children residing within an 8-km radius of the school.
The court also refused to suspend the new norms for this year's nursery admissions. It, however, allowed the private schools' plea to be heard on merit at a later date.
The schools complained mostly on the omission of management quota and the 8-km radius criteria.
On his move to cancel the management quota, Jung said the concept of management quota was applicable to professional education, where "merit" is the criterion for admission.
"When the raison d'etre for recognition of a school is that it fulfills a 'real need' of the locality, its autonomy cannot extend to choosing students beyond the locality," he said on the neighbourhood criteria.
The lt. governor also said the private unaided schools were seeking "an undue privilege in the garb of autonomy in the matter of right to admit students of their own choice".
Jung said that in the absence of criteria for nursery admissions, both parents and children are subjected to various screening procedures including written tests and interviews.
Section 13 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, explicitly prohibits any kind of screening procedure for admission of children in schools, including private unaided recognised schools.
"Needless to say that the experience is not only traumatic for the children, their parents but also a pathway for corruption," Jung said.
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Certain points in LG's argument are worth giving some serious thought:
1: "Commercialization of ... same would be detrimental to equal opportunity to children" - Respected LG sir, which equal opportunity are you referring to? Parent alumni carry a weightage of 5 points.
Q1.1. Is that enabling an 'equal opportunity to children' whose father was not able to get educated or for that matter even was not able to go to a school of choice but wants the kid to get educated and want to go to a good school?
Q1.2. Transfer case carries a weightage of 5 points for a logic which may be apparent only to respected sir or to the concerned department only. Ask millions of parents what an 'equal opportunity to children' it has created. Icing on the cake, the initial guidelines to the latest circular everything leaves things for interpretation. Can’t even comprehend what qualifies as a valid transfer, what all supporting documents to establish a true transfer, what specific protocol the school need to follow. Everything ambiguous yet the claim of 'equal opportunity'
2: “Needless to say, the experience is not only traumatic for the children and their parents but also a pathway for corruption,” Jung said.”
Q2.1: Just confused is he referring to previous years or is a confession for current year?
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I am not a typical naysayer and acknowledge the fact that there are certain things which appears to be in right direction
- Abolishing management quota
- Restricting practice of interview/written test etc.
- Spreading areas to 8 KM (enabling masses access to good schools)
However, my biggest concern and disappointing point is that why (for God shake why) every year, without any exception, a huge chaos gets created around the admission time. Why is it that the duly qualified IAS and bureaucrats cant draw a policy which is meeting the political mandate yet is just for the citizens. How many more years of chaos?
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Najeeb's intention to provide equal opportunity is right. However, decisions taken unilaterally without involving parent's or school bodies has led to this great admission chaos. Schools are thrashing Najeeb for abolishing quota and parents are abusing him for his biased and thoughtless guidelines. I agree with Tarun, there should be well qualified people deciding such matters. Rather a proper committee representing all stakeholders should take such sensitive decisions that directly impact people's lives.
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I know I am only adding to the debate but here's my two pence worth of views if anybody would care to listen:
1. I think we are missing the woods for the trees when we go hammer and tongs at transfer points. Sure, I believe, there is merit in abolishing or severely restricting it but what I would really like to see is that locational advantage being given the priority that it deserves. My view: create a separate distance category and RESERVE atleast a chunk of the seats (lets say 65-70 pct) only for general cat location.
2.Abolish transfer points
3. If you really believe in equality then there should not be any alumni points because it perpetuates heredity in education. I went to school x so my son has a birthright on the same school. If equality is indeed the motto, then sorry not happening.
4. Have a separate category for siblings. Maybe reserve 10 pct for them....these percentages can be decided later but its more important to fix the principle.
What then happens is instead of HOPING AGAINST HOPE that 70 pointers could be eligible for a draw of lots, by creating a separate category and abolishing/severely restricting/creating a separate category for alumni, the general category 70 pointers will not just be assured of a draw in every school but could also have a reasonable chance in all schools.
5. Ofcourse the best would be if the govt can create 200/300 better schools managed privately but that's a long term solution.
So moral of the story: Don't just look at transfer points, create pressure for a separate category for 70 pointers in the general category location has to yield effective advantage.
Rest my case.
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