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Are parents admitting children below 4 years to nursery for the 2011-2012 academic year at their own risk?Will their admission b withdrawn after being found 2 have violated a HC order| HT 24 Dec 2010
Are parents admitting children below four years to nursery classes for the 2011-2012 academic year at their own risk? Will their admission be withdrawn after being found to have violated a 2007 Delhi High Court (HC) order? The HC on Thursday sought a list of schools that plan to admit kids aged below four, as on March 31, 2011.
The court was hearing a contempt petition filed by Ashok Agarwal, founder of NGO Social Jurist against Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta.
Asserting that it was wrong on the part of the Delhi government to remain silent on the age rule in its guidelines, Agarwal contended it has "deliberately and intentionally" disobeyed the directions of the HC, dated September 26, 2007, as per which, the minimum age for a child to enter a formal school in Delhi from the academic year 2008-2009, shall be four years on March 31 of the admission year.
He said the duration of pre-primary class shall be one year and the same should be the class immediately prior to Class I.
Justice G S Sistani sought the list of schools from the NGO, after Delhi government lawyer Zubeida Begum submitted before the court that there was no violation of rules.
Agarwal told the court that "the government... is still permitting all unaided private schools to continue the unjust, illegal and cruel practice of running two years of pre-primary classes and admitting children of three plus years age, instead of one year of pre-primary class and admitting children aged four plus years".
He told HT, "Parents admitting their children below four years will be doing it at their own risk.”
The Delhi HC had banned interviews, framed guidelines for nursery admission and fixed the age rule for the first time in response to a public interest litigation filed by Social Jurist in 2007.
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Permalink Reply by 0kpos75fbr9w9 on
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i m agree with mr. rahul. the age criteria should not be changed at this stage.
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Hi,
I agree with you Rahul! This is not about who is right/wrong......rather it is about the stressful confusion and the mental trauma that the parents as well as the kids have been going through all this while! 3+ or 4+ is not what is the concern here! The question is why all this is not clear till the 11th hour of the show! Had the age been clear, at least the parents and the kids of the 3+ category could have relaxed for one more year! I am sure you will agree to this! :)
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For your kind info, I wasn't sleeping. I have joined this forum a few days back. And one thing more - the RTE issue has come to the fore this year only. And it applies to any person - he voices his opinion when he finds himself in that situation. So, there is nothing strange about it. If we keep focusing on nursery seats remaining empty for one year, then WHAT will be the right year to make the change?
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right you joined this forum recently but the order was being violated since 3 years...the right year to make the change can be coming year too only if creteria is 4+ as on 30th sep 2011...
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I second rahulji
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thanks ashima..
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ayushji please as we all know its going to be three year lets wait if anything drastic happens
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it shud be decided before admission process starts...now if age got changed then it shud be applicable for next year means 2011-2012...should not go for this yr admission process
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I agree..and also why cant they make one rule, once and for all instead of making the parents hand in confusion every year. Why cant they concentrate on things like ongoing scam...Delhi government is disgusting to T
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What ever the final out come is, it'll be for all of us not just one person and in the meantime we can keep filling froms when ever they are available, no school would ask you to throw away the from already bought and even if the court delay it's decision then it'll be applicable from next year only. I personally feel 4yrs is the right age for the child to go to formal school however it shouldn't be at dot 4, I mean they should take - 4months time as well because, if some child is May or Jun born then by the time he/she is eligible the child would be 4.10yrs which is quite old for pre-school, and at 3.8yrs it's ok to go to pre-school.
I hope Mr. Aggarwal, could try to work on this as well.
My son started school early as he was Nov born, so he initiallly did faced some problems as he was below the avg. class age and my daughter who is May born, would be going late if the new age system selected.
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What if the admission age is changed from 3 to 4 before the 1st of January and all the newspapers and TV channels and this forum inform us all about the change? Would that also be inconvenient to the parent community? Although, to be honest, I don't see the admission age being changed in the near future.
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See thats why age criteria that says 3 and a half years on march 31st is fine. otherwise the kids who are born in months from ocT to Feb will be at the receiving end. You know how the schools in delhi are, they do not leave scope for any flexibility and when the child is getting admitted at the age of 3 and a half he/she is gtng admission in nursery, then there is prep and then 1st and the two years in nursery and prep they just take it easy...so 3 and a half year make perfect sense to me.
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