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BIG Schools screen kids even after second list list out | They are not scared of anyone as they have published regarding Interview on their website|Sumit Vohra | Deccan Herald - 16 Feb
Schools screen kids even after second list list out
This season has seen more violations of guidelines than previous four years
The BGS International Public School in Dwarka has come out with the second list for nursery admissions but the school authorities are still calling children along with their parents for interviews - in violation of the Right To Education rules.
Experts say rules state screening of children before or after admissions is not allowed.
After speaking with BGS International as a parent of one of the selected candidates, it was discovered the school is giving admission on first-cum-first-serve basis.
The teacher dealing with parents’ queries regarding admissions said: “Get all the documents and it will be preferable if both parents and the child are there for the interaction on February 18. If you do not get the child we might cancel your seat,” she said.
However, the principal was not available for comments. Meanwhile, Birla Vidya Niketan School in Pushp Vihar is personally calling up candidates who were not selected for personal interaction, parents alleged.
Sumanta was surprised to receive a call from the school when her daughter's name did not feature in the first list or waiting list.
The Principal’s personal assistant had called her up.
“When I visited the school, a queue of parents was being guided to a closed room for an 'interview' with the principal. Since my daughter was not accompanying me, I was denied entry,” said Sumanta.
She said, “The school authorities said the principal wanted to meet my daughter and ask a few questions. Another parent, who came out of the interview, said there was a demand for donations.”
She has not received any response to her e-mail to the principal seeking an explanation.However, the school authorities denied these allegations saying they are following nursery admission guidelines.
Sumit Vohra, who runs www.admissionsnursery.com, a portal with over 40,000 members, explained that schools can be punished for committing such violations.
“These are not the only schools as for 15 days I have been getting complaints against several schools regarding screening of children. I am amazed to see that schools are calling three and four- year-old children for interviews even after admission,” he said.
“This year a maximum number of cases of violation of admission guidelines have come up compared to last four years. I hope the Directorate of Education will take punitive action against erring schools as there are some established schools which have been following guidelines,” he added.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Permalink Reply by Prabhat Kumar on
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Informatively, Blue Bells and Indian School is also calling whose name did not feature in the first list or waiting list.
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After my this years experience, I find it better that schools be given freedom to decide their prospective candidates.
Its better for both kid/parents and school to be mutually agreeable. The whole motivation level of schools/teachers may go off if they don't get kids of their choice. So may happen for parents who despite having built good foundation based on education are unable to get agreeable education for their next generation.
The assessment should be allowed. The age of such assessment may be agreed as current (3+) or few years late.
As for crunch situation of good schools, govt should pull itself up by making govt schools at par with pvt schools rather than pulling pvt schools down! Too much govt interference will only degrade the system.
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@Vijay: I can relate to your frustration. However, selections should not be based on interviews - at least at the Nursery levels. Children can be extremely moody and will just refuse to interact, though they may know quite a bit. This might lead to extreme stress at home as well. Some basic interaction may be involved - but not as a selection criteria at such a small age. They're too small to understand the implications!
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I am sure there are ways to assess kids even at nursery level. Some expert schools did so by assessing their parents. Anyway, the point is, with this non-profiling and non-assessment, there will be unwanted mismatch between what school wants and what parents want.
There are parents/kids who do not want to make their profession out of education. As normally has been seen, some business class parents want their children to finish their education from mediocre school and then take up their business as soon as possible. Then there are parents who dream of sending their kids for higher and higher education. With this non-profiling and non-assessment, not so needy child may get best education whereas the truly needy one may not be able to.
I am not saying the assessment should be at nursery level. If majority agree, let there be assessment after 2-3 years. In fact after primary should be best period for assessment based reallocation of schools. Let kids enjoy their primary years in vicinity and then pursue their sec, sr sec and hr sec as per their capabilities.
Anyway, all these are dream talks. There is no use even discussing them with current state of affairs. All discussions finally hit a dead end when it comes to our apathetic policy makers.
Lets see what worse do they have in store next.
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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Point system is brought to just abolish these type of interactions and interviews. These interactions gives schools an opportunity to evaluate the background of the children they will enrol and it also helps to keep business dealing with parents.
Mr. Kiran Bhatty RTE wing commissioner of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said, "Section 13 of the RTE Act clearly states that no school can have a screening procedure for admissions at the elementary level. There are no exemptions mentioned in Section 13. This is a blanket ban, applicable to all schools - whether government, aided, unaided, private or specified category like Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodaya etc and even residential schools.
He added that the Act addresses elementary education - defined as 1st to 8th standard - and it does not matter if the school does not have classes starting from standard 1. The screening procedure is banned for all classes up to standard 8th. The law provides that even children who have never been to school can join the age-appropriate class without being put through any screening."The RTE came into force on 1 April 2010, and the government committed a sum of Rs. 2.31 trillion for the implementation of the Act over a period of five years. The budget is to be shared between the Union and state governments in a 65:35 ratio.
In other words, governments had a mandate to spend some Rs. 46,000 crore yearly until 2015 for improving the primary school system in the country. The central government had given three years to states to put the system in place.Schools can get to know about kids and parents after admission process and not before the admission process. A orientation day can be arranged if schools like parents to know more about the school without taking any money after admission process.
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Point system, probably, would have made sense if there were plenty of supply of good schools in the neighborhood. With these point systems, many schools are turning either into siblings only school or girls only school! It has only resulted in much more uncertainty as even after applying in more than 50 schools, people are not getting admission! God knows what kinda chaos would be there next year!
And God knows what will happen to those good schools which are faithfully following point system when other "not so good" schools are profiling!
No screening till 8th is too late. Should be brought down to 3rd or max till 6th.
All those big figures about implementation of RTE act, lets hope 1% of it does get utilized for it's intended purpose and we see better primary education in India by 2015, not otherwise! Fingers crossed.
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Section 3 provides to every child of the age of six to fourteen years the right to free and compulsory education in a neighbourhood school till the completion of elementary education.
So the main goal of RTE Act is to provide elementary education to all and RTE cannot be successful if kids are be left out through screening procedure.
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