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Comment by Maneesh on January 16, 2014 at 12:36pm

While the ambiguity and delays are frustrating, I hope we are able to establish a robust system this time. While going through the current litigation, I was amazed to realize that minority schools reserve seats for specific (minority) sections of society. I wonder when would majority schools wake up :) and start discouraging minority sections from applying! High time, India wakes up and starts taking decisions logically vs. trying to appease vote banks.

As I understand, many parents were happy with the guidelines released by LG’s office but I have a different take:

 

1)      No Management Quota: Good Move

2)      Neighborhood Points: 70 points for 8 KM. Intent is right. Neighborhood is the most logical factor while granting admissions provided it can live to the intent. 8 KM is a huge radius and covers a population of around 20 Lakh people in Delhi. In the presence of other criteria’s like sibling, alumni & transfer; points for distance loose its charm. Having 70 points for distance cannot guarantee admission and would simply increase the cut off to 75 or 80+ points. Some seats left would be contested through lucky draws.

3)      Sibling: 20 Points: While I am against any preferential system, it’s logical for parents to have both kids in the same school. It’s fair provided we have equivalent points for First Child/Single Child. There are countries that encourage 1 child policy to control population and India must desperately adopt similar practices to curb the growing population. For India, I would vouch for a system that gives extra points to parents with only one child.

4)      Alumni: 5 Points: It’s a joke. Since I could not study in a good school, my children should also suffer! This criterion is a pure nonsense to me and I couldn’t appreciate any logical benefit of this factor.

5)      Transfer Case: 5 Points: It’s stupid. While it’s logical for a transfer case to get benefit during the middle of the year when the school sessions are on but giving any benefit for fresh admissions at the start of the session is completely foolish. Why should a transfer case get weightage over permanent residents for nursery admissions? These points would also be falsely used by many parents working with private companies. How difficult is it for a private limited firm to produce a transfer letter for one of the directors.

If we want the system to be fair for all, we can only rely on neighborhood points and lucky draws. Any other criteria in addition to these would only increase the cut-off and biases.

Comment by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 16, 2014 at 12:18pm

Mukesh ,what is the age criteria in Mt carmel school.

Comment by Amit Garg on January 16, 2014 at 12:18pm

Hi,

Can someone please suggest if the schools will accept the rent agreement as a residence proof? I have checked the websites of some of the schools and they have not mentioned rent agreement in their list of acceptable address proof. Is there any provisions for parent living on rent and not having proofs like ration card, voter id card etc?? Please suggest. 

Comment by Pankaj D on January 16, 2014 at 11:50am

Today we also collected the form from Mount Carmel School, Dwarka. Mount Carmel being a Minority School is not going to be affected by the HC reserved order that is why they could issue forms from today.

But, if they change the criteria than it would be a trouble for us parents.

But, all other schools in Dwarka are saying they are also awaiting High Court's order and only after that they would start issuing forms.

Regards,

Pankaj

Comment by Smitha Sindhu on January 16, 2014 at 11:40am

This is really annoying. Anyways parents are already under pressure of school admissions and this HC case pending and admissions not starting on time are really topping it. Many schools are waiting for HC decision but as I gotta know that GD Goenka, rohini has started giving admission forms.... all the best to other parents!

Comment by Anjali Bhatia on January 16, 2014 at 11:36am

Hi All ,

Even St Fransis, Janak Puri is selling forms for Rs 250/- starting today . Finally when will the admissioms start ?Things should be preplanned and unnecessary hassle should not be created for us. is there any other school selling forms ?

 

 

 

Comment by Varsha Agarwal on January 16, 2014 at 11:03am

It has become really confusing now .....I contacted a few schools but they dint gave any clear answer about the date of forms......finally what I have understud is that forms are not available as of now...only mount caramel and one more school selling forms.hope am right

Comment by Shikha Tiwari on January 16, 2014 at 10:57am

we are facing lot of prblems as there is not any information about admission on the scool websites even. And some schools have started selling forms too. So it is very difficult to know what is going on.

Comment by Harpreet singh on January 16, 2014 at 10:57am

Mount carmel selling forms. Have other schools also started selling forms?

Comment by Sakshi (Moderator) on January 16, 2014 at 10:53am

Manisha,

If criteria is changed and case goes in favor of schools.They will implement different point system.

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