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#Nurseryadmissions- Times of India 15 Aug -Schools bypass RTE rules to screen students, parents
Schools bypass RTE rules to screen students, parents
TNN | Aug 15, 2016, 12.37 AM IST
GURGAON: Schools in the city continue to profile and screen students as well as parents on one criteria or the other for admissions, despite the RTE Act prohibiting the same.
Many parents have raised concerns that the schools have been seeking their financial details and even their parents (i.e., grandparents of the students) in the admission forms. Some schools even have a separate column on their admission form for financial details.
"It seems that the schools are becoming more money-minded with each passing day when as per the government policies, they are not supposed to be profit-making businesses. It looks like that they might give admissions to only those who match their criteria for extorting money," said Khusboo, who just got her daughter admitted to a well-known school in Gurgaon.
"The RTE (Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education) Act, 2009, restricts schools from conducting any kind of profiling or screening at the time of admissions," said Sumit Vohra, founder of admissionsnursery.com, a platform for nursery admissions in the NCR. "While some schools might argue that RTE norms are only applicable for students aged six years and above, but as per the women and child welfare laws, no screening or profiling is allowed for the admission process," he added.
Even as per the Punjab and Haryana high court guidelines, parents' economical or professional qualifications should not in any way come in the way of getting their wards admitted to a school. Beyond the violation of rules, parents find the schools' query on financial details a bit weird and commercial.
"We had filled the admission form last year and it had a separate column on parents' annual income. I found it weird because one would only apply to a school only if one can afford it," said Jasmine, another parent.
However, profiling is done in ways — in a lot of cases, interviews are done in indirect subtle and informal ways, which parents find difficult to point at.
In one such case, a couple of parents were recently a bit surprised when they were seated separately from their children. "We were asked a list of questions, as many as 30-40, while our son was questioned as well," said a parent, requesting anonymity.
Vohra said that in some schools, information is also sought about the students' grandparents in terms of their qualifications and professions.
The schools, on the other hand, say they do not take the information as criteria to screen the students, but for general information.
"The schools now-a-days offer a lot of facilities and sometimes parents might take admissions and later find it not viable. I think financial viability must be discussed between the schools and the parents especially in the background of the debate on school fee hike in the city," said Colonel Pratap Singh (Retd), the president of Haryana Progressive Schools' Conference.
Many parents have raised concerns that the schools have been seeking their financial details and even their parents (i.e., grandparents of the students) in the admission forms. Some schools even have a separate column on their admission form for financial details.
"It seems that the schools are becoming more money-minded with each passing day when as per the government policies, they are not supposed to be profit-making businesses. It looks like that they might give admissions to only those who match their criteria for extorting money," said Khusboo, who just got her daughter admitted to a well-known school in Gurgaon.
"The RTE (Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education) Act, 2009, restricts schools from conducting any kind of profiling or screening at the time of admissions," said Sumit Vohra, founder of admissionsnursery.com, a platform for nursery admissions in the NCR. "While some schools might argue that RTE norms are only applicable for students aged six years and above, but as per the women and child welfare laws, no screening or profiling is allowed for the admission process," he added.
Even as per the Punjab and Haryana high court guidelines, parents' economical or professional qualifications should not in any way come in the way of getting their wards admitted to a school. Beyond the violation of rules, parents find the schools' query on financial details a bit weird and commercial.
"We had filled the admission form last year and it had a separate column on parents' annual income. I found it weird because one would only apply to a school only if one can afford it," said Jasmine, another parent.
However, profiling is done in ways — in a lot of cases, interviews are done in indirect subtle and informal ways, which parents find difficult to point at.
In one such case, a couple of parents were recently a bit surprised when they were seated separately from their children. "We were asked a list of questions, as many as 30-40, while our son was questioned as well," said a parent, requesting anonymity.
Vohra said that in some schools, information is also sought about the students' grandparents in terms of their qualifications and professions.
The schools, on the other hand, say they do not take the information as criteria to screen the students, but for general information.
"The schools now-a-days offer a lot of facilities and sometimes parents might take admissions and later find it not viable. I think financial viability must be discussed between the schools and the parents especially in the background of the debate on school fee hike in the city," said Colonel Pratap Singh (Retd), the president of Haryana Progressive Schools' Conference.
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