Nursery admissions or the litmus test for parents to show how effective is their parenting in terms of actions,sacrifice,feelings,monitary power,contacts and what not. This power packed subject has all the essential ingrediants of a pot-boiler.
Points,points,points. Lot of points if you have a girl child, sibling in a school, parents as alumini from a school, you are unhappily married (meaning single/divorcee), belong to minority. But God forbid if you have a first born boy child and you are a happily married hindu couple, then forget about getting your child admitted to a good school.
Newspapers, online websites, discussion forums, playschools, TV, radio all have the info and sympathetic eye and ear about this unique Delhi feature. However, the eternal confusion between school authorities and parents persists year after year.
Confusion around form dates, submission dates, age criteria, point system, documents, fees structure, school branch etc etc.
The biggest sliver lining in this dark cloud is that the kid is spared from the whole admission agony. Oblivion of the trying circumstances that her parents are going through, the child can enjoy some more time of her precious, innocent childhood which will be lost pretty soon, once she enters the big school which her parents have been dying to get her admitted to.
That is the sole good thing which has come out of this exercise of forming a uniform, simplistic approach to nursery admissions.Meaning, all this committee decisions enforcement and rollback has added more to the prevailing admissions turmoil BUT I hail it for the one big positive outcome that poor child doesnt have to go through all the interactions (aka interviews). Let the kids be kids.Dont rob them of their childhood.
Another point to note here is that Delhi is still much better with lot of active involvement of news channels, high court directives, media people. On the other side, if you see Gurgaon's situation, its a jundle raj there. Where every nukkad ka school, adding an International tag to its name, thinks that it can take you for a good financial ride. With pathetic school conditions, minimum they charge for the admission form is Rs 500 and school fees touching the roof.
I must say, another big advantage of living in Delhi, schools are not taking parents for a ride, there genuinly is lot of confusion and hopefully the whole process would get streamlined in next 2-3 years. Till then, dear parents, pull up your socks and get, set, go to win the race for the best school.
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