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Permalink Reply by 0vbem0lm1wsji on December 21, 2011 at 12:44pm

@Shweta - Do you think this should be a criteria for a child's admission? What about those people who are not CAs or MBAs but aspire to give better education to their child what they could not have?

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on December 21, 2011 at 1:22pm

Dear Sweta
The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has formulated guidelines for admission to schools following the enactment of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009.

As per the guidelines, this policy should include criteria for categorisation of applicants in terms of objectives of the school on a rational and just basis.There shall be no profiling of children based on parental educational qualifications. The policy should be placed by the school in the public domain, given wide publicity and explicitly mentioned in the prospectus. There shall be no testing and interviews of children/parents in or outside the categories and selection should be random.

Section 13(1) of RTE Act provides that while admitting a child, no school or person shall subject him/her or his/her parents to any screening procedure.

So no points are given to parent's educational qualification since it is one way of screening parents.

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