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Private School To Challenge Ruling On Nursery Admission
By Sumit Kumar, Section News
The City's private schools seem to be in a defiant mood. A number of schools have decided to challenge the recommendations of the Ganguly Committee on nursery admissions that were accepted by the Delhi High Court last month to be implemented on a trial basis for a year. The private schools say the report impinges on their autonomy as promised by the Delhi School Education Act.
"We are filing an affidavit in court on Friday and raising our objections. If the court does not accept them, we will then think of our next step," said S. K. Bhattacharya, president, joint action committee, an umbrella body of 1,800 private schools. The committee banned any kind of interaction with either the parent or child. It had suggested a 100-point admission form for rating children based on factors like distance of residence from the school, parents' qualification, children of alumni and siblings of existing students. Twenty points have been left to the school's discretion but they were asked to advertise the criteria for awarding these. The Joint Action Committee, an umbrella body that represents 1,800 schools, had reacted sharply to the recommendations on the day they were de clared. The Hindustan Times had first reported on October 18 that the private schools planned to challenge the Ganguly committee's recommendations in the next hearing scheduled to be held on November 3. Click on "Full Story" for more...
"We had said from the outset that the recommendations sound very good, but are not practical. Even the neighbourhood policy which is acceptable to all in principal cannot be implemented as you do not have an even distribution of good schools in the city. Does this mean that parents in east or outer Delhi cannot choose to send their child to a qual ity school, while residents of some areas that have a thick concentration of such institutions get undue advantage?" asked Bhattacharya.
His contention is picked up by Shriram School which is another party in the case. "In Vasant Vihar, you have at least 27 schools, while a resident of a colony like CR Park, Bijwasan or Prithwiraj Road is at a disadvantage because of fewer schools," said Manju Bharat Ram, chairperson Shriram Society which runs the Shriram Schools. She feels parents will go to any length to garner points under neighbourhood policy or educational qualifications. "A person who is a simple graduate can have higher aspirations for his child," she said. Bhattacharya says undue weightage has been given to factors like siblings and alumni. "Older schools like Modern, DPS and Springdales will have a huge number of such applicants. Does this mean that general category students will not get a chance to study there?" he asked. National Progressive Schools' Conference chairperson Usha Ram says the new system is dense and will give rise to practical problems. "Autonomy will at least mean a chance to interact with the parents of a child set to spend 13 years with us," said Ram. From: HT, NOV-03,2006
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