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On why "neighbourhood" should be the only criterion in school admissions

1. Distance from the school is the only criterion that affects a child physically. No other criterion affects the child physically. Criteria like siblings, transferable jobs, awardee parents, single parent and so on are just discriminatory.

2. If more children are sent to neighbourhood schools, all neighbourhood schools would have a chance to develop.

3. Eventually, people would become "proximity" conscious than "brand" conscious.

4. Siblings would stand a greater chance of getting into the same school as they will also qualify for the neighbourhood points like their siblings. 

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SandeepPermalink Reply by Sandeep on February 3, 2013 at 7:32am
Akshat, can ou realistically speaking expect YOUR child to feel more comfortable in a. Govt school compared to a Pvt one?
SandeepPermalink Reply by Sandeep on February 3, 2013 at 7:35am
Akshat, in one of yourear.er posts you commented on my post that like banks are regulated schools should also be. Of course I COMPLETELY AGREE. I am NOT sayingdont regulate schools. I AM saying DON'T OVER REGULATE them.
Permalink Reply by Akshat on February 3, 2013 at 10:02am

Asking schools to adhere to a certain admission criteria is not overregulation. In fact, it is a necessity to prevent nepotism and corruption.

Permalink Reply by Akshat on February 3, 2013 at 9:59am

Again, you are missing the point. We are talking about physical comfort getting priority over mental comfort. Physical comfort is something that can be predicted, but mental comfort can be gauged only after the kid has entered the school.

SandeepPermalink Reply by Sandeep on February 3, 2013 at 2:15pm
Akshat you physical and mental comfort criteria completely baffle me. I guess what you are saying is that if you have a govt school 100mt from your house you know for sure that getting your child into that school will provide him physical comfort and that you will be willing to do so presuming that you will find Bout the mental comfort once he goes there. Good luck..And yes it will be a long wait for all parents. The sad part is that in 1 or 2 yrs someone else will file one more petition and the then HC bench will come up with an even more 'non discriminatory' criteria...
Permalink Reply by Akshat on February 3, 2013 at 2:20pm

As I mentioned earlier, I am ready to send my kid to a govt school if the "area only" criteria is applied. You can find a detailed reply in the previous pages.

Permalink Reply by Akshat on February 3, 2013 at 2:24pm

And yes, for you it is "the sad part" that somebody is trying to make the admission process "non discriminatory". That says it all. No need to even expand on that

Permalink Reply by Akshat on February 3, 2013 at 10:39am

In a TV discussion yesterday, when the private schools' representative was asked why neighbourhood+lottery criteria is not being implemented for non-EWS students, she had no answer. On being asked why private schools are so worried about scrapping of the point system, again she had no answer. Most importantly, the petitioner in the HC case, who was present in the discussion along with this website's founder, said he expects the verdict to come within next 10 days. Boy it's gonna be a long, treacherous Feb! :-( 

Permalink Reply by Umesh on February 3, 2013 at 6:42pm

Yeah Akshat.

The other day Shashi Tharoor distanced RTE from nursery admissions on technical grounds. What a shame.

Permalink Reply by waseem abbas on February 3, 2013 at 10:52pm

defenitely neighbourhood should be the only criteria and it is good for the child. he does not have to sit in school bus for hours .and parents could visit frequently to school.Why torture the kids by forcing them to travel long distance?

SandeepPermalink Reply by Sandeep on February 3, 2013 at 10:57pm
Akshat, don't think you quite caught what I was trying to put forth. Anyways we are all expressing our views here and this argument could go on and on. Good luck to all the children who are in the fray for admissions this yr, I hope everyone finds an appropriate school to go to.....
1z2aiilzxecjvPermalink Reply by 1z2aiilzxecjv on February 4, 2013 at 12:01pm

I think Neighborhood policy is the right policy. Even in advanced countries like Japan, US, UK school admissions are done purely on neighborhood criteria. In US they have a concept of school district and push for students from neighborhood only and even property prices go up for the areas which have good schools. On the similar lines you have concept of community colleges. I would never send my child to a school which is far from my home till he/she is 10 years old.

Schools should do surprise home visits to verifiy the addresses. The concept has to be neighborhood based only so if you shift your residence you should shift your child's school so that he/she is not forced to travel distances at such tender age.  As for fake rentals - god help those who want to start their children's education on lies. I completely agree with fellow boarders that this govt has completely failed in getting its basics right on everything. If you start thinking on 1000's of parameters you can never formulate the right policy or set of rules. The policy forumulation should be on basics like the pressure on child (4+ age only), risk involved in travel etc..

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