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Hindustan Times 8 Oct |Pg 3 ~Revision of point system sought |“Assigning 20-30 points to alumni or double alumni goes against the spirit of RTE". Mr Sumit Vohra
Revision of point system sought
Those in transferable jobs suffer
NEW DELHI: For Vijendra Sehgal (name changed on request) — who works with a multinational company — a transfer to Delhi from Hyderabad spelt bad news.
Today, Sehgal runs in vain from pillar to post to secure a nursery seat in some school for his child in Delhi, thanks to the challenges of the points system, which assigns a significant weightage to the sibling and alumni categories, but an insignificant number of points to transfers.
“I was not aware of the RTE guidelines. But going by them, my child is not likely to secure any seat in Delhi because of the system. I have gone to some NCR schools too, but nothing has worked out so far,” said Sehgal.
Sehgal’s is not an isolated case. Like him, there are several parents who are at the receiving end of the points system.
Schools too echo the same sentiment. “We should make the system flexible and attribute better points to transfer category. New schools have come up in the NCR region and in Dwarka. So parents look at these schools as an alternative, not knowing that the commute can be extremely tiring for the child,” said Ameeta Wattal, vice-chairperson, National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC).
While the system is not as bad for children of defence personnel, it is anything but fair for those whose children do not enjoy a similar safety net. “For parents who work in banks or railways or any other civilian job, this system is unfair. Also, a lot of transfers don’t happen during the admission season. We should consider these factors,” added Wattal.
While several popular schools in the city assign almost 30 points for distance, 30 for sibling and 30 for alumni categories, only 5-10 points are assigned for transfer cases.
“Assigning 20-30 points to alumni or double alumni goes against the spirit of RTE. Some schools openly flout the RTE by assigning points to children of engineers or doctors. The Directorate of Education needs to review this system to ensure some sort of uniformity is maintained,” said Sumit Vohra, founder of www.admissionsnursery.com.
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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@ Jaswal it's the wish of any parent to give best education to their kids in best school they consider best. If you go by that concept I think schools may ask upto 9 lakh donation for management quota. But is it wise on our part to pay such hefty donation mere for a nursery seat. I always prefer parents to go by neighbourhood schools since tiny tots should have a joyful learning without any stress and strain. If parents go against the concept it's our kids who are going to suffer.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Lathaaji, After 2-3 years if not satisfied school can be changed also.
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Permalink Reply by Maharam Tanwar on
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@Jaswal, neighbourhood concept is basically based on minimizing the travel time between residence and the school so that undue stress on the students can be avoided. There are other benefits also for radius criteria. Hence, emphasis is given on neighbourhood. Point system is good in my opinion but the need of the hour is to make it more transparent by both the parents and the school. Parents should not arrange fake docs and schools should not violate or mis-interpret the guidelines.
Everyone on this site should think for the purpose "Education for All". I am sure time is not far away when this objective will be achieved.
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Maharam ji see todays Toi news , It seems the proposal given to government by our founder Mr Sumit Vohra regarding centralized application might become a reality
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Govt-plans-c...
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That is nice to hear from you. If it does not come this year, I am sure it will be accepted in near future because of its transparency. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Kanika Pathak on
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Point system is okie but the pints should not be there for girl child as being educated parents whether it be biys or girls we will make our kids study, moreover there should be no pints for alumni.
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Convent schools give up to 50 points for being a catholic. If alumni is wrong why should segregation on religion be allowed to such an extent
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@ Ravi Kumar Sharma
Private unaided minority schools enjoy autonomy under the Delhi School Education Act. Article 30 (1) of the Indian Constitution also guaranteed their rights. The article said “all minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice” and therefore they could frame their own rules of admission.
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Yes i agree kanika
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@Ravi, As these schools belong to minority ,all these thing are allowed by courts.
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Sakshiji - I fail to understand what does the religion of the child have any thing to do with admission. Is there any data which suggests that minorities are not given adequate representation or discriminated against that they need reservations
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I would like to propose following admission system for Delhi schools:
80% of the non-EWS seats to be filled as per the following criteria:
Distance up to 1 km: 100 points
Distance up to 3 km: 80 points
Distance up to 5 km: 60 points
20% of the non-EWS seats to be filled by the 'alumni', 'sibling', 'single parent', 'physically handicapped' and 'transfer' cases. Only those kids will be eligible for this draw who failed to get selected on the distance criteria. A separate draw of lots will be conducted for these 20% of the seats.
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