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Mr Vohra highlights plight of parents who applied in more than 10 schools in FULL PAGE STORY BEFORE PROTEST MARCH - MAIL TODAY 6 FEB 2011
Parents who tried to beat the odds fairly and failed |
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By Ritika Chopra in New Delhi |
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Long hours of legwork didn’t fetch their kids enough points THE LONG road to secure admission to nursery for their kids this year looks to have left parents a little more exasperated than usual. Despite their best efforts — some parents hedged their bets and applied to as many as 15 schools — the hours of patient legwork and filling out forms have failed to bear fruit. Consequently, they are left with no other option but to keep their kids in the neighbourhood playschool for another year and hope for a better result during the next admission cycle. MAIL TODAY profiles three couples who tried to improve their odds — by applying to 10 or more schools — and still found themselves short on points. BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW SHE LEFT no stone unturned and applied to 14 schools for her son’s admission to nursery. “ But even that wasn’t enough,” said Sushma Bhardwaj ( 33), a resident of Saket, who runs her own digital marketing firm. On February 1, she discovered that her son Aryan had not been selected anywhere — even though her selection of schools was a mix of sought- after and not- so- popular institutions and were all within 5 km of her house. “ My elder daughter’s admission to nursery, about six years ago, was a cakewalk. We applied to just three schools then and she was selected. This time I anticipated serious competition and applied to more schools. I was shocked to see the results,” Bhardwaj said. The gruelling and unfruitful experience has left her bitter and hopeless. Left with little option, Bhardwaj will keep her son in the neighbourhood playschool for another year. “ It’s such experiences that push parents to use unfair means for admission,” she said SHE APPLIED TO: Amity International School, Saket, The Pinnacle School, Panchsheel Enclave, Bloom Public School, Bluebells School, among others. LET DOWN BY SYSTEMIC FLAWS SANJAY Mahajan ( 37) is upset with the Delhi government for overlooking the obvious flaws in the points system. “ Is it my fault that my child is a boy? Or that I don’t have a transferable job? Or that I haven’t studied in 10 different schools to improve his chances of admission? The schools’ admission policy definitely makes it seem so,” said the Lajpat Nagar resident and father of a three- year- old. Mahajan had applied to 11 schools, but couldn’t secure admission for his son Shreyas in any of them as different quotas and categories such as EWS, sibling, alumni and girl child had cornered most of the general seats. HE APPLIED TO: Mata Gujri Public School, GK- I, Summerfields School, Kailash Colony, Cambridge School, New Friends Colony, among others. UNLUCKY TWICE OVER NEHAL Rizvi, unlike most parents, was all- too- familiar with the admission grind. This year, after all, was his second attempt at securing admission to a formal school for his daughter Shifa Fatima. But he clearly did not expect to be unlucky a second time. “ Shifa is already four years old. Next year, when I try again, she’ll have turned five. I am completely at a loss and have no idea what I should do now,” said Rizvi ( 36), who is a software quality engineer and a resident of Jamia Nagar. As an applicant, Shifa scored points only under the neighbourhood criterion in most of the 10 schools that her father had applied to. “ There is no room for candidates who actually qualify under the general criteria. Our children, too, deserve to go to a good school and should not be judged on whether they have a sibling studying in the school already or if their parent is an alumnus of the school,” he said. For now, Rizvi plans to admit his daughter to a small local school in his area and then try for admission to Class I next year. “ This school barely has facilties and functions out of just one building, but I have no choice other than to admit her there for now,” he added. HE APPLIED TO: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Carmel Convent, St. George’s School, Alaknanda, DPS, Mathura Road and East of Kailash, Kalka Public School, Mater Dei, Bal Bharti Air Force School, Lady Irwin School, among others. |
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Permalink Reply by Tabish Ahmad on
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Its unbelievable what parents have to go thru after such hard work......it only leaves with them the option of money power.....sad ....but do they have any other left than to put their child future at stake....
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If this trend continues, we will be left with no option but to start HOME SCHOOLING and seek out distance education for primary education.
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Hello Ruchi,
Aap sahi kah rahi goverment aur schools ko seats the boli laga deni chahiye. Jiski jitni haisiyat hogi wo usi school main form bharega. Hum sab baby ke born se hi uski school admission ke liye money secure karna shuru kar dege jisese ki wo achhe school main pad sake. Aur atleast hum sabko dukh to nahi hoga ke humare kid ka admission kyo nahi ho raha
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I am amazed at the number of sibling cases not getting seats into the schools of their brother or sister!!! What is the next steps? These children cannot be left out of the educational system. We wish them all the best and hope that the second list have their names incorporated.
Best wishes, Malini
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i had applied in 28 schools but didn't get through any one .what can be done with the system........now looking at the criteria i think that those parents who are well educated,qualified,are happily married ,having only one child,are a permanent resident of delhi have no value for these schools.i think its a game schools are playing in terms of humanity.
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Last year I had applied in 18 schools but couldnt get my son admitted to any one of them. Cambridge primary school is only 1.5 km from my residence but they did not alott me full points for neighbourhood. Alhough they admitted students living even 5 Km away. My daughter studies in one school but they also refused admission alhough he fulfilled both neighbourhood and sibling crieria. This year also I applied in that school but he was not even shortlisted for Document Verificaion. this year I had applied in many schools in KG but with no success as far as admission is concerened .
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it is pathetic that policy makers do not do their home work before making policies rather they make such policies so that they can get moNey thru back door admissions....these policies only frustate people to secure admissions thru wrong means........it is strange that a tax payer who earns thru hard work and pays taxes cannot secure admissions for his child .the rich can shell out a few lacs....where does a middle class family go???????.............WHY MANAGEMENT QUOTA ........(so that schools and influential people can earn money...it is just like earning money by making coffins ..PATHETIC.....also there is no unified point system ......why such kind of policy ......it is just BANANA REPUBLIC...
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any source...pls let me know
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Have you any doubts that its not Banana Republic? one has rightly said 100 me se 99 baiman bhir bhe mera bharat Mahaan!
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traveling on same boat...
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It is complete fraud . After standing in long queues for forms , waiting for the results , still my son is unable to get an admission in any of the school . It means that my son will be deprived of the education which is fundamental right of the citizen of India . There is no transparency and complete flaw in the point system decided by DoE . I am unable to understand few things
1) There should not be any discrimination in the education against race , religion , sex so why are we discriminating in girl and boy since childhood .Does it mean that especially male child will not have an equal opportunity as others
2) There is no tranparency in allocating the seats unders EWS section . Most of the people are affluent to whom the seats have been allocated under EWS section so there is an implementation problem for which Govt should pay focussed attention rather than deciding the guidelines only .
3) Why DoE has given liberty to schools for deciding the seats ( like 20% of the seats are reserved for management quota ) if most of the child cannot be accomodated in the admission .
It shows that there is rampant corruption in the entire system and the citizens are just only puppet of this system .
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If the aam aadmi does not come out on the streets to protest, I am afraid, this rotten system cannot be changed. An uprising, like the one taking place in Egypt right now, is badly needed in our country. It is long overdue. The tragedy is that people in our country have lots of patience and tolerance, which is a bad thing. Even the poor in our country give more importance to caste and religion and forget all about their financial miseries. It is high time a revolution took place to dethrone the nasty leaders and politicians.
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