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No nursery admissions in private Delhi schools till final verdict, orders court
Delhi, Updated Jan 28, 2013 at 06:07pm ISTDelhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered private schools in Delhi to not allow nursery admissions till it gives a final verdict on the validity of government's 2010 notification and whether it follows the Right to Education Act. "Schools cannot formulate their own admission policies," the court further ordered.
The notification allows schools in Delhi to formulate their own guidelines and preferences based on religion, sibling and alumni to admit children in nursery. The court had earlier said the Centre and the Delhi government cannot "dilute" RTE Act by allowing unaided private schools to use their own criteria for nursery admissions.
The court had also said the ongoing nursery admission process in Delhi would be cancelled if it decides to "quash" the notification issued on December 15, 2010 by the Directorate of Education (DoE) on behalf of Delhi government.
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Permalink Reply by Sandeep Gandhi on
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Well, how do you then account for parents not applying to certain schools simple because the point systems were not conducive and there seemed no chance of admission??
Clearly things are not as simple as they are being made out to be.. and answering all the questions would need a system which will take more than a couple of months to be put in place
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uniform criteria area a must , even when it comes to deciding neighbourhoods ,According to DPS Dwarka , areas even less than 5km are not neighborhood as they are not a part of dwarka Subcity.They are alloted the same points as anywhere else in delhi or even gurgaon , all this is indirect screening .i hope the HC order lays down some rules also apart from just quashing previous processes , otherwise we will be at the mercy of schools at least for this year .
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This is now becoming a complete circus.. firstly there is no interim order by court to stay the nursery admission... there is nothing on high court website (which posts such orders) and HT reported that the court refused to stay the admission process. However many schools taking cue from this report have stalled the admissions even after declaring names of the candidates.
Secondly, the case is regarding the interpretation of Right to Education act... it cannot be applicable only to Delhi.... then what about admissions in the rest of the schools all over India... what is the court going to say on that.... is right to education, and this particular interpretation of Right to Education only for children in Delhi...?? My personnel view is at least Delhi admissions are slightly more organized, and now we can seek admission for our wards without paying donations.
So not only any system proposed by the high court has to be enforced pan India.... there has to be a robust and tested central admission system in place. This is because how does one ensure that some children just by luck do not get through 10 schools and have the choice to pick through 1 of them while others may not even get through one, and would have to settle with wherever the seats are left. Further how does one go about controlling such a draw of lots... and parents would need to run to each school to ensure there is no rigging. The point is that one cannot just imagine a system and put it in place for admissions... it will take a minimum of an year for it to be robust enough to be put in place.... will the admissions wait till then.
I hope someone takes these points to the court... and while upholding the law.... they do figure out a way to implement it effectively.... while avoiding additional stress and torture to parents who have already been running from pillar to post for the past 1 month.
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i really wonder what we understand from right to education , the right to admission to top 10 schools ?
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No, what we understand from right to education is an equal opportunity to get admission in the top 10 schools. The key word is opportunity, not guarantee.
When you and I and everyone else has the same opportunity to get into the so called top schools, it would not be a matter of shame if we don't get into a top school. Eventually, people would stop worrying about brands that much and concentrate on good education and proximity to the schools!
But good schools are open only for a select few right now. Either you have to pay a hefty sum as donation (discrimination based on social status) or you have to have siblings, alumni, transfer points (discrimination based on random exclusive criteria).
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Ok, then let the court also address the debate if sisters or brother sisters going to the same school is fare or not. I hope to get my younger daughter to the same school where the elder one was admitted, also through the same point system. The school is not the closest not so called amongst the top, but as I parent nothing matters to me more than to see the two sisters being together for each other in the same school.
Now if I even get an admission in a most sought after school, will I be allowed to barter the seat for this one.. just to see the two sister together? and of course who will facilitate such a barter ... touts ofcourse !!!!
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@Sandeep: Under the current system, you loose out points for first child in some schools for your second child. The current system provides you an advantage in the school where your elder child is admitted. However, the concern being raised by other parents is that if all seats go only to siblings, where do other parents go? Consider a normal school with 4 sections and an average strength of 40 children. This is 160 children in one class. Assuming a gap of upto 5 years between two children this means 800 children - potential siblings. Even if only 20% of these children have a sibling - it still fills up all available seats in a class .. not considering Management and EWS seats! I am not saying you shouldn't be given some preference .. but the current system excludes everyone else who is not already associated with a school.
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Well statistically that is not true.. as you have not accounted the probability of having a sibling which diminishes as the age gap increases. Add to that the facts that children may already be younger in the family and that they may be the only child... which brings it down to 15-20%. You can corroborate this with the points in the lists already declared, it is a surprise match. From my experience even my elder daughter go through point system on the basis of first child, and even then there were the same points for sibling. So may be then the answer is to reserve some 20% seats for sibling and if there are more they go under draw of lots in the sibling criteria.
So even though some points such as special status of parents (where parents having published research etc.) get priority can and should be done away with... I do not see why sibling falls under the scanner.
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@Sandeep: Even if you consider only 10% of children upto class 3 having siblings 10% of 800 = 80 (class strength of 160 per class from Pre-Nursery to class 3 = 5 years)
Include 20% Management 25% EWS and 5% staff quota in a possible 160 seats - the entire remaining 80 seats are available only to Siblings!
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Anand I don't think there is any need to explain to Mr. Gandhi how the sibling points criterion is unfair. I am sure he is the beneficiary of the current points system.
And he certainly has seen enough school lists to confirm that registrations with sibling points dominate the first lists entirely.
The name Gandhi itself is a paen to nepotism in our country.
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Right to Education from what I understand in simple English:
Right to go apply to any school nearby. The school in its turn considers my candidature at par with everyone else, without any preference/bias based on any category like caste/religion/sibling/alumni/girl child/govt. servant etc. My child has as much right to be educated in a school as any other child!
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