While private schools across Delhi are rejoicing after the High Court’s verdict on nursery admissions on Friday, parents have been in complete distress over which school would accept their children. Since every school would now issue their own criterion, parents would have to keep running around to check where their child would be eligible for admission. Additionally, for most parents, the implementation of the 2007 Ganguly Committee recommendations are unfair as schools will now do admissions the way they like, thus, giving rise to corruption, backdoor entries and unfair admissions.
Anuradha Sharma, a parent said, “Again the private schools will rule and our small wards would be subjected the pressure of interview and parents would be subjected to the pressure of getting hold of some source to get the admission through the school. This judgement is absolutely unfavourable for us.”
However, the major cause of concern for parents is that every school will be releasing different criterion which means that they will have to keep running around. “Now it is our duty to wait for each and every school to decide dates and criteria. This just means that there is far more running around that we will have to do than ever before. We can’t even expect a common platform now as it is now the fundamental right of every school to govern as they deem fit. Every single seat is now the sole discretion of the school management. Management quota is back and it will bite us all,” said Gitanjali Nair, another parent.
With the High Court quashing everything and going right back to the previous system started in 2007, the schools can now choose their own criteria for neighbourhood, sibling, transfer cases, alumni and management quota. While many neighbourhood cases are disappointed with this, according to founder of admissionsnursery.com Sumit Vohra, the main sufferers are now the children who are under the first child.