There seems to be no end to the woes of parents looking to get their wards admitted to city’s private schools at the nursery level. With only a week remaining for the closure of nursery admissions, several schools have been flouting the guidelines by imposing an age limit for children seeking admission in nursery. Parents are complaining that they have not been able to fill online forms for nursery admissions, as the forms do not accept age beyond four years which the schools have arbitrarily decided.
Schools like Amity International (Saket), Ryan International, Bal Bharti (Pitampura and Rohini) among others, on their websites, have barred admission in nursery for any child who was born before April 2010 which means, a child can be maximum 4 years of age to get admitted. The same age limit is applicable in Tagore International School in Vasant Vihar and East of Kailash also.
“I wanted to apply in Amity Saket for my child’s admission. He was born on December 4, 2009 but the school is not accepting my form because he is 4 plus. This is a complete violation of government instructions,” said Anuj, a disappointed parent.
“Several schools have made it mandatory that a child must be born between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011. This is an arbitrary step taken by schools as no upper limit has been decided by the DoE. Schools are not abiding by the rules and are torturing the parents like this,” said Sumit Vohra, founder of admissionsnursery.com who had lodged several complaints against the erring schools since the commencement of admissions.
According to the guidelines of the Directorate of Education the minimum age for admission in pre-school is defined as “minimum of three years by 31st March of the year in which admission is being sought” and no maximum age limit has been prescribed.