This is a circular with lots of confusion. One one hand it authorizes schools to frame their own policy to be made public whereas on the other hand it also emphasizes on a random selection for general category applicants. In general, I am expecting a policy which will give weightage to distance, sibling, alumni, girl child, transfer case & single parent. But then how to proceed with random selection. I am confused. Needs more clarification to avoid interpretation for the personal benefit.
Have just sent this mail to the hon. minister of HRD Sh kapil Sibal
Dear Sir
I am the parent of a three year old child. As any other parent in Delhi, i am equally stressed at the thought of nursery admission for my child. All the parents had high hopes from the Guidelines to be issued by the DOE for nursery admissions in Delhi.
However, the guidelines announced in 23rd Nov 2010 have left me and most of the other parents disappointed. To put it mildly, there are several vague areas left in the guidelines. Prominent among these are
- There is no mention of the age for admission to nursery ( 3+ or 4+)
- Each school has been allowed to formulate its own guideline within certain boundaries
- While there is no screen test / interview for the parent/child, there is no definition of the random selection process ...will it be computer based or open lottery kind or anything else..again this is left to schools discretion
- There is no instruction to schools on what kind of questions can be asked in the admission form. For example schools can ask for parents profession but still fall within the guidelines and can easily select the kind of students they want
- There is no definition of criterion which the school can use - This might lead to some schools using vague criteria such as reserving a large pool of seats for alumni or children of IAS/ senior govt officials etc.
- The guidelines outline that the admission criteria should be rational, reasonable and just. Nice words but is there an appalate authority to judge if the criteria are rational, reasonable and just ? The obvious answer is No. Again this is at teh descrition of the schools
- Since there are no dates mentioned for the process to start or the end date, the wide publicity required for the admission criteria of each school might be give a miss by the schools easily.
These guidelines have left me and a lot of other parents jittery and worried about the future of their kids.
Given your truly focussed approach in the HRD ministry and revolutionary steps like abolishing the board exams, we know that you are the best bet to set in place a system of admissions which is indeed rational, reasonable and just. We would like to make a humble request to you to kindly personally intervene in this matter and help sort out the problems
We look forward to a positive response from your side.
there is a contradiction on the rte itself bcoz on one side it says there should be a rational basis for admission and on the last line it says there should be random basis for open category.
Mr. Vohra
Pls help the parents and convey these anagolies in the rules or guidelines for nursery admission. My simple questions are :
Sibling point: 10 --- what if the child has no sibling? child will loose points for no reasons!
Alumni : 10 pts. --- what if the parents are not passed out from the same school but wanted their child to study in that school? Again child will loose points for no reasons.
school points: 20 pts ---- means the decisions rest with the school if they dont want the child they give ZERO points --- child again will loose 20 points
and so on.......
My simple question is that WHAT KIND OF GUIDELINES ARE ISSUED BY DOE, IT ONLY CREATING HAVOC IN GENERAL PUBLIC. WHO HAVE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO PLAY WITH OUR CHILD'S FUTURE TO ANYONE (SCHOOL MANAGEMENT OR GOVT.,DOE)
MR. VOHRA ,PLEASE HELP YOU ARE THE ONLY MEDIUM THRU WHICH WE CAN CONVEY OUR PROBLEMS
exactly i agree with bhawna . do we have rite to admitt our children to good schools or not ,do we have any option or we will have to sacrifice on the future of our little ones.