New Delhi: Schools have themselves to blame for the Delhi High Court’s ban on interviews for nursery admissions.
Five months ago, the court asked schools to seek alternate options for the admission process. Schools failed to find options and the court on Wednesday banned interviews.
A Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice S N Aggarwal gave four weeks to the managements of private schools to stop interviews.
Schools were asked to rework the admission procedure by July 26. The court gave a suggestion that 90 per cent of the admissions could be done by drawing lots and the rest according to schools’ discretion. It also asked schools to consider centralising the nursery admission procedure.
Schools, however, say drawing lots will be unfair to deserving children and centralising admissions will not work. They also argue that when parents have the right to reject a school, a school must have the right to select students.
They insist that interaction with parents and children must not be done away with. Latha Vaidyanathan, principal of Modern School, says, "I don’t think it will work. Each school is different in its own way. A particular pattern of selection might work for my school, and a different pattern might work for other schools.
Three couples had filed petitions in the court, alleging that nursery admissions in the city were completely arbitrary. The ruling means that children don’t have to suffer interviews and parents embarrassing questions like how many cars and servants they have at home.
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