Nursery Admissions in Delhi NCR 2024-25
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No ‘good’ school too far for parents~Many Nursery Kids Will Travel. Over 15km~Times Of India 24 Sep-Sumit Vohra
No ‘good’ school too far for parents~Many Nursery Kids Will Travel. Over 15km~Times Of India 24 Sep- Sumit Vohra of founder of admissionsnursery.com points out that with greater “disposable income, parents are looking for new-age schools and don’t mind keeping a dedicated vehicle with chauffeur. Plus, many parents want to block a seat in at least one sought-after school. There are also parents who don’t have ‘brands’ in their vicinity”.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: In search of “good schools” and paranoid about the points system used for nursery admissions in Delhi, many parents are sending kids to NCR schools that are upward of 15 kilometres from home. In some cases, parents will have to arrange for transport, too.
Shruti Kapoor*, a Defence Colony-based chartered accountant, who’s admitted her son to a school about 15km away, says she’s “desperate because of the admission system in Delhi”. Most schools currently follow a points system in which points out of 100 are allocated to an aspirant according to various parameters, typically, distance from school, whether one or both parents are alumna, whether a sibling is attending the same school, and whether the candidate is a girl child or a first child. Candidates who fulfill most criteria get most points.
Kapoor has been studying the system and she doesn’t like the odds. “My son is a first child and I’m not an alumnus of any school close by.” She’ll try in Delhi again in December but till then she’s “secured a seat” at Lotus Valley, Noida. She is not on the bus route either. “The management was clear on that I’ll have to arrange for transport,” she says.
Sanjay Aggarwal, who lives in Laxmi Nagar, is sending his son to Delhi Public School, Sector 132, on the expressway, 18km away. “The distance seems like a lot but they have school transport and travel time is less.”
Suraj Suri stays in Sector Chi 4 in Greater Noida and will be sending his daughter to Lotus Valley, which is at a distance of 17-18km, from next year. He already has a son studying there. “One concern was that the child is going this far and another was that the school bus takes the highway,” says Suri. He’s found out since that the driver never drives above 60kmph and never stops on the highway. “In four years, we never had any problem.”
Activists, however, argue that proximity to school should be the only criterion for admitting students—distance also being a provision in the RTE Act—and that the system of admissions now is less child-friendly.
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Permalink Reply by V R Harihar on
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@Anil,
I slightly differ with your opinion my friend.
As per me, majority of parents are willing to pay extra but not as a transportation option. However there may be very few who will go for this option (having own chauffer driven cab for their kid ) & the schools you have listed are all high profile schools wherein this may be a possibility but if you see in a mass of other schools, this option may not work out.
Yes, this option may be possible in case few parents create a car pool kind of option which may infact be a cheaper option but still lot of parents feel that schools should be as near as possible to home since time "Actually Kills" the health/lifestyle.
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Permalink Reply by ramakant parida on
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I know many parents from sarita vihar doing car pool and going to schools like appejay in noida.
@Harihar question here is not transport mode but how parents are forced to go to far away places because they cannot make in good delhi schools.
All schools in new delhi follow point system in which you cannot get admission in absence of sibling or alumni points.
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@Sunny,
I fully agree to your point. That's the reason I feel that this point system may not work equally successfully in all conditions. Specially for a parent with single 1st child, where parent is not alumni, where distance between home & school is more than 5kms etc.
Surely there is a need to see what best may be done to ensure that parents may get admission in nearest possible schools & they don't have to make their young children travel so much which is also harsh for the kids.
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I completely agree that making such young kids travel such a long distance on a daily basis is going to impact their health.
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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Parents have moved ahead of Delhi admission for a secured seat in NCR due to admission phobia due to the failed admission process in Delhi. Government should come forward for a uniform point criteria this time.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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LATHAAJI
I second you as parents in Delhi are insecure about nursery admissions.
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Permalink Reply by Yash Rawat on
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Hi Sakshi/Lathaa.. this same situation for NCR parents whose kid's seat occupied by the delhi folks.
well ,i say very parents insecure now whether is delhi or NCR.
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I agree with you Yash.
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I don't agree to current point system or point system based on distance unless you can guarantee admissions in nearby schools . In current point system it is very difficult to get admission if one is not in sibling, alumni case. Cons of distance based system ( I will cite Noida as example assuming point system is applied)
1. if schools are less in your vicinity than demand (take sector 7x, 119,120 as example) it would be difficult to get admission in nearby school and distant school you don't have chances. You will have to settle on left over schools.
2. if schools in your vicinity are costly ( take expressway sectors as example), you will have to take additional financial burden.
3. This system will create an incentive to live near sought after schools. It will raise prices/rent in vicinity and ultimately only rich will avail sought after schools even if school fee is low.
For example sectors like 7x will have negative shift on prices and area near noida golf course and expressway will become costlier.
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Parag
I agree then only Draw of lots is the solution but RTE says neighbourhood should be the only criteria with random and just method.
How many parents are ready for lottery ?
Does children staying far do not have fundamental right to apply in far off schools?
I saw lot of of debate on this forum .
whats your take .
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Permalink Reply by Koel on
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lottery is fully false .....we five friends ...our kids dint get thru lottery in dps-45 (gurgaon)....but after 15 days they gave us calls and asked us to register our child if we r still interested......so do you believe in lottery?
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@Parag,
Agree with you.
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