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Don't Allow Schools To Take 3 -yr- olds in Nursery | ADMISSION NOTICE HC seeks government stand on matter by NOV 23| Hindustan Times Page 4 Dated NOV 3
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ADMISSION NOTICE HC seeks government stand on matter by November 23
The nursery admission row is back in the courts.The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Delhi government's stand on a plea for stopping various private schools from admitting children below four years of age in their pre-primary (nursery) classes.
Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued a notice to the Directorate of Education and the Committee on Unaided Schools and sought their replies by November 23.
“Despite the court's orders and directions issued by education department, private schools gave admission to threeyear-old children.“
Lawyer Ashok Agarwal, appearing for NGO Social Jurist, accused the government of not enforcing the court's September 2007 order, which had asked it to implement Ashok Ganguly Committee's recommendations.
The Ganguly Committee had fixed four years as the minimum age for admission in pre-primary classes.
“This helped children prepare for admission to Class 1 in primary schools after the age of five years and without undergoing more than a year of schooling at pre-primary stage,“ Agarwal said.
Seeking directions to all unaided private schools to follow a uniform age criteria of four plus to admit students in nursery classes, the petition said it was a must to meet the statutory stipulation under Section 16 of Delhi School Education Act, 1973 that no child below five years in age should be admitted to Class 1 of a recognised school. TEACHERS AGREE WITH GANGULY COMMITTEE When asked to comment, most principals and education experts said that three years was too early an age to send a child to school.
Last year, in fact, many had raised their voice against the admission criteria that declared the minimum permissible admission age to be three years.
“This is a persistent problem. Some three-year-olds are not even toilet-trained. Nursery is the beginning of formal schooling but it becomes a part of early childhood schooling when children so young are enrolled,“ said Ameeta M Wattal, principal, Springdales School, Pusa Road While last year, the age for admission was three years, the year before that it was set at four years.
“The government needs to be clear about the implementation of the suggestions of the Ashok Ganguly Committee. Ideally there should be just one year of pre-primary education, the age of admission to which should be four years,“ said Sumit Vohra, who runs admissionsnursery.com, a website on nursery admissions in the NCR.
“We have said repeatedly that three years is too young,“ he added. ,
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Permalink Reply by 2c6uah0oinqme on
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I agree that 4 year will be a good age but at the same time I think this would mean that this year the no of students will be less for admission as all were admitted last year.
Or parents will have an opportunity to change school and waste 1 year of their ward.
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Most of the schools last year have taken 3 yrs plus in 'pre school " and the same would be 'promoted' to pre primary at age of 4 which fulfills the criterion. This makes almost 2 years of play schooling before preprimary (nursery). For some parents esp working parents playschools have become kinds of creches.
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Maharamji
what are the chances of age criteria being changed from 3 years to 4 years or making kg as entry level in schools
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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on
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Dear Sumitra,
Majority favours the move including schools, but can't predict anything. I am stressed more even though i have major and employed children. Anyway, I wish this should be implemented as early as possible.
Chances are bright from 2013-14 session onward.
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i think this 4-yr-old child criteria should be acceptable as early as possible. as it will help the child to grow better in comparison to 3-yr-old child who might not have habits to follow the strick rules of private school and not so much capable to understand the rules enough
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I agree with you simran but dont you think corrupt schools wont let this happen easily as they will suffer financial loss
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BTW, what was the criteria for Gurgaon, Noida and GHZ ?
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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@Umesh, The age criteria is flexible in Ncr varies from 3 to 31/2 yrs for nursery
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Thanks
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this is very true kids are too young to go to main school at this age we really hope this is followed and pls make it clear the admission age.
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Yes bhawna you are 100 % right but lets see how school lobby reacts
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i agree with 3 1/2 but not for 4+, 4+ is too late for nursury. My son DOB 4 april 2008 , if govt will take 4+ then my child will get admission in nursury in the age of 5 & its too late...........
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