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Nursery admission test: Struggle of parents
The Hindu takes a look at the stories of two parents who went through the nightmare that is Delhi nursery school admissions.
Santosh Sharma, Education consultant
When Santosh Sharma moved to Delhi from Udaipur two years ago, he naturally wanted his son to study in a good school and so applied in the 2014-15 session.
He applied to 10 schools near his residence in Dwarka, but got a seat in just one school. "My son got a seat in a school near my house on the basis of neighbourhood points and transfer criteria. Since the school was close by and reputable, I decided to get my son admitted there. But then the problem arose with the fee. The school was asking for over Rs. 1 lakh and was unwilling to give me a break-up. I could have paid the fee had I known what it was going to be used for, but the school gave me the last session's break-up, which made no sense, and I cancelled my plan," Mr. Sharma said.
Mr. Sharma then decided to send his child to a playschool that had a prep class equivalent to nursery. He now plans to send his son to formal school only from Class I.
Shweta Mishra, housewife
For Shweta Mishra, a housewife living in Delhi , her daughter's nursery admission became a nightmare when she sent her daughter to a formal school at the age of 3 years and 11 months.
Most schools denied her daughter admission saying that she was too old for nursery, as she was just 12 days short of being four at the time of her admission.
"We had applied to six-seven schools near my residence and we could secure a seat for my daughter in most of them but all the schools created problem with her age," said Ms. Mishra.
"My daughter Sumedha was just 12 days short of being four at the time of her admission and the schools said that she will be too old for nursery by the time the session begins. Now how can parents make sure that their children are born age appropriate for nursery admissions, this is ridiculous," she added. Having no other option, Ms. Mishra and her husband decided to send their daughter to a prep class of a playschool.
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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Govt. should come out clearly with age limit in it's guidelines or else schools may come out with their own age restrictions.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Lathaaji
After Mr Vohra raised his voice few years backon upper cut age. DOE promised to decide by last year but still nothing has been decided.
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Permalink Reply by Satvinder Singh on
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Intresting point it is published in The Hindu a reputed newspaper and we need to know what action has been taken against those so called reputed schools?
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Satvinder
Parents don't come in open if they take admission after giving donation n the parents who complaint are ignored because of corrupt system.
But now AAP govt is making rules of 5-10 yrs imprisonment for schools takling donation .
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Satvinder
Notice to prominent Delhi school for taking donation after Mr Sumit Vohra's Complaint to DyCM Manish Sisodia !!
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My daughter is Born in 11th April 2012. She is 11days short of 4 years from the last date of admissions. But according to the age criteria she wasn't eligible last year so will have to try this year only. We are very tensed reading this post as we too may have to go through the same nightmare.
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Oooja
she is eligible for nursery ,no worries .
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Don't worry Pooja. Your daughter is eligible. The age criteria is 3 years as on 31st March. Even the child is 3 years 11 months and 29 days, on 31st March 2016, he/she is eligible. Date of Birth should be 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013.
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I have a query with Ms Shweta, my daughter is also April born , she was not qualified for last session as cutoff date is 31st March, now I’ll be applying for her nursery admission during current session i.e. April 2016 march 2017. She will also be 3 years and 11 month. How can school say no ?? As this criteria of 31st March has been decided by schools only. At any point of time one has to fix a cut of date...so how can it is possible that they say ur child too old for nursery...?? This is really nightmare.........I am also now worried that what will happened to my daughter.......
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GUNJAN
I feel she might be 12 days overage ..could be typo..else we never saw this problem in last 7-8 yrs.
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