Nursery admissions in Delhi: Schools back to waiting game, parents panic

NEW DELHI: In the first half of Friday, teachers of Maharaja Agrasen Public School in Pitampura emailed and SMSed parents of kids admitted to nursery till April 9 that the session was beginning on April 15. Soon they were repeating the exercise, says principal Punam Gupta, to announce that it wasn't happening. At many schools around the city, fees have been paid, uniforms and books bought and invites for orientation programmes sent out. But, with Supreme Court staying the April 3 Delhi High Court order allowing nursery admissions for those with confirmed seats, it's back to the waiting game. While nursery classes will not begin on April 15, they're not sure if the admissions made till April 9 are valid anymore.

"Out of the 225 seats, 124 had been claimed," says Gupta, "Some have bought uniforms and books. Some of these seats have gone to siblings but there are 70-pointers as well and they are ones I'm worried about."

Schools that put things on hold the moment the process seemed uncertain are better off. Ameeta Mulla Wattal, principal, Springdales School (Pusa Road) and chairperson, National Progressive Schools Conference, has been asking school authorities to be patient from the start and wait for the courts to arrive at a final set of rules. No draws have been held after February 27 (when the transfer points were scrapped) at Springdales. Wattal says she wasn't going to start the session with just a part of the class on April 15 in any case. "We can't do this in a piecemeal manner," she says. "They should come up with a final set of rules so we can go ahead. The order on disability is also yet to be notified."

Laxman Public School principal Usha Ram too is glad she'd chosen to not admit any 70-pointers. "There are 43 seats. If transfer points get reintroduced, I'll just take that number out of the 43 and hold a draw for the rest. It's simple," says Ram. "But the stay is very surprising. We have held half the orientation and it was DoE that gave us the go-ahead."

The frequent changes in the nursery admission process and schedule are beginning to affect the schools' regular functioning. Typically, at Agrasen, nursery classes begin two days before the rest. "That way, we can have more than one teacher for each class to help the kids feel comfortable. This time we won't have that extra help," says Gupta. They had already made five sections of eight on Friday. LV Sehgal, principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, says schools use the month before summer vacations to help children settle down. Now, he says, it seems likely that classes will not begin before July.

Parents are calling up schools in panic. "They are tense and school authorities are anxious," says Sehgal. "This time, most of them have deposited the fee, and for the rest, we thought we'd know by April 16." Jyoti Arora, principal, Mount Abu Public School, Rohini, is telling parents to "follow the news".

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