New Delhi, February 09: Several parents in Delhi have been left stressed after their children have failed to secure nursery admission in any of the schools they had applied to, regardless of the number of schools they had applied in.
According to a chartered accountant father, Rahul Kapoor who had applied to 11 schools to get his son admitted to nursery, the reason for his son not being able to find admission anywhere is due to losing out on the alumni and sibling points.
Most parents whose children have been unable to find admission in any school have also blamed the alumni and sibling points. Although schools have assured that they would be releasing a second cutoff list, most parents have little or no hope from these lists too.
Kapoor said that there was no use in waiting for the second admission lists as even the waiting list for most schools had candidates with alumni and sibling points.
The nursery admission guidelines for this year had been issued by the Directorate of Education (DoE) and had been framed under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. These guidelines had made it necessary for all schools to reserve 25% seats for children from economically weaker sections (EWS), which had in turn led to the number of seats for general category children to drop significantly.
Schools have this year followed the 100 points system for nursery admissions that allotted points for categories such as neighborhood, siblings already studying in the school, alumni, etc.
Several parents are now left with no other option but to let their children continue in play schools for the current year and apply again to nursery next year. However, several other parents are even considering relocating to other cities so that their child can commence formal schooling this year itself.
However, several parents whose children have not made it to any school this year are worried about waiting for the next year as their children might be above the age of 4 by then and most schools prefer children who have attained 3 years of age.
–IANS