Life Saving Guide- options for 4+ year old in Nursery Admissions in Delhi

As asked by one of my fellow parents today, I thought I should share what I know.

Most schools are not denying forms for Nursery aka Pre-School admission to 4+ year olds reason being the following:

• they don't want to get highlighted just for denial of forms
• even if they SELL forms to 4+ yr old, they dont gurantee that kid will get a seat in pre-school aka nursery
• it doesnt cost them but add good money to their kitty, so no harm in giving form

There are only few (probably one or two) scools that are strict about age and are not allowing 4+ yrs forms for pre-school.

It's all money game......and unfortunately kids along with their por parents are are loosing side of this political game.

Amiown Interview Questions (yes they conducting so called interactions)

No matter what you do, we will do what we want, the way we want... Probably this is the message that schools are trying to convey to DOE.

This is what we came to know from few parents - Amiown called them for so called "interaction with parents" but then they asked child to be taken into a room and one of the parents was allowed to go in. The "interaction" took place in Hinglish (mix of Hindi and English) and they bombarded kid with question on topics like:

• Color identification
• Shape identification
• Animals, Birds identification
• Painting
• Drawing

The parent were asked these questions (sort of, language and type of question may differ):

• How you want to raise your kid
• What is your take on future of your kid
• Where you both work
• What you do

The total duration of this interaction varied from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. As we can guess, what school is trying to do here........

The facts abouts Shemrock, Kalkaji, New Delhi

I never thought that I would be writing about any play school on my, until one of my very close friend reported this to me. It was really hard to believe his words because whatever he described was no way close to what I (and most of the Delhites) know as Shemrock now days.

Here are some top concerns reported against Shemrock, Kalkaji:

• School doesn’t take kids out for any outdoor activities. Kids have never been taken to nearby parks even.
• School usually sends monthly event calendar in the middle of the month and sometimes it reaches to parents after in the 2nd, 3rd week of the month.
• Recently most of the play schools have been giving parents some clues, information on print (like list of schools in Delhi with their contact information) regarding pre-school, pri-primary admissions but this school has not extended any such help to parents.
  Parents those have tried to approach the owner (franchisee owner) of this Shemrock School with their complaints, the principal has started misbehaving with those parents.
• School organized one teacher-parent meet in last one calendar year (2007). When parents requested principal that they want to see class teacher, she refused saying that parents can only meet teachers during teacher-parent meets.
• School has been found locked at 9am and parents/vans along with kids have to wait at school gates until principal comes and opens the lock. As kids enter the school, the maid/sweepers start cleaning the school and kids have to suffer the dust which is a well known health hazard.
• Vans that are operating for pickup and drops of kids doesn’t have any assistant/teacher and kids are on the sole mercy of drivers that drive rash and kids usually have challenge to balance themselves in the vans journey to school. Matter has been reported to principal many times but all in vain.

These issues were reported to me by one of the parents and his one year experience with this school. If someone has any different or may be similar opinion about this school, please do share the same for the benefit of our fellow parents. Thanks!

New Green Field Schools, Saket and Alaknanda - Admissions Open

New Green Field Schools, Saket and Alaknanda branches have opened admissions for Pre-School and Pre-Primary today. Detail are available at school and in today's HT - Delhi Edition.

Unfortunately the school site (be careful!!!) is full of spam scripts and it's being blocked by anti-virus tools. If you dont have a good anti-virus installed on your machine - DO NOT OPEN THIS SITE!!!

Admissions open in GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, New Delhi

Admissions are now open in GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, New Delhi (per advt in TOI and HT - Delhi Editions)

Seats are available only in Pre-School (aka 'Nursery') grade only. As we already got used to the fact - no seats are available in Pre-Primary (aka 'KG') grade.

GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj website is down

Today GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj has published news on nursery admissions on leading newspapers but their site is down so forms cant be downloaded from site.

If anyone know any other link from where we can download forms, please share the same.

As per information available as of now, tare no seats available for Pre-Primary classes :(

Parents now have Forum and Hotline (mailing list)

I am have done tie-up with AdIdiot and we have created a forum (http://nurseryadmissionsdelhi.adidiot.com) on this portal.

You can also subscribe to the mailing list here: http://nurseryadmissionsdelhi.adidiot.com/hotline

Please join and help in this movement.

Thanks!

Bluebells School International, Kailash, New Delhi

Here is some very latest info from Bluebells School International, Kailash, New Delhi
Then school site has better information than most of the prominant delhi schools. This school site provides detailed information but unfortunately, no seats for pre-primary available.

Here is the snippet from the site (as on today):
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Total number of seats - 106
Seats for economically Weaker Section - 10% - seats - 16
Wards of the Staff - 5% - seats - 8
Management Quota (not to be displayed) - 20% - seats - 32
Rest - 104

Registration forms : Available from 15th Dec., 2007 till 31 st Dec., 2007 Between 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

- Submission of forms : 1 st Jan., 2008 till 7 th Jan., 2008 till 16.00 hrs
- First list of selected children : On 1st February, 2008
- Second waiting list : On 1 st February, 2008

Fees of the selected children in the first list shall be accepted as per the following schedule :
- For the first list : On 15 th Feb., 2008 till 16.00 hrs
- For the second list : On 26 th Feb., 2008 till 16.00 hrs
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The Banyan Tree School, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Here are some hot updates from The Banyan Tree School, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
No wonder the story is the same as with other Delhi schools. The school site has typical "admissions" page but it hangs out there for the sake of page only, no real information available.

A visitor is presented with two bullet points taking nowhere, one of which reads "REGISTRATION FORM FOR NURSERY". Hence, no forms are available - which means that no seats!

Message from Directorate of Education

Sandeep Kumar has joined as Director of DOE on 11th Dec 2007. He has been very impressive with her message as he says:

"I would deffinately like to see the initiatives already taken reach a logical conclusion"

I wish he is thinking of 2008-2009 Nursery Admissions when he said this.

You can read his complete message here.

Parents to file PIL against the nursery admissions mess?

As mentioned by one of my fellows Shivangi (see her comments here!), should we all parnts unite and file a PIL against nursery admission mess that has been created by government and stupid leaders? I think we should...

I would like to invite your views and comments on this, let's all unite and share the knowledge with rest of the parents. Please be open to write here and send your suggestions so we can probably meet sometime and discuss this all.

This just cant be one sided game and poor kids should not remember this for rest of their life as ugly political decision which ruined their life and took away one valuable year.

Come on everyone! Keep watching this space for more updates!

Updates from Birla Vidya Niketan, Saket, New Delhi

To my big surprise - the site of this permier south delhi school is very annoying. The worst a website can do is throw ad pop-ups which this site does. Not sure if you have noticed that but the home page title reads "New Page 1", and the images and font ont he home page is also out of proportion. Wondering who designed this website and who approved this design and layout...

Last few days this site has started throwing login boxes (probably replaced existing pop-ups)

Banner moving left to right is aprominant design flow- huh! I can go on and on.....let's go back to admissions.

So far no news, updats are available from this school too as in most of the cases in Delhi. We enquired from school administration and but they said - we dont have any exact information as yet, we are working on it and they told us that information will be published in the leading newspapers of Delhi like Times of India, Hindustan Times etc.

Same story - O God!

क्यों आते नहीं नारद राह दिखाने,
क्यों आता नहीं वो बंसी बजाने!

जलाते हैं मंदिर, जालाते हैं मस्जिद,
क्यों आता नहीं कोई दीपक जलाने,
क्यों आते नहीं नारद राह दिखाने!

अजब है मंजर, हर हाथ में है खंजर,
क्यों आता नहीं कोई मरहम लगाने,
क्यों आते नहीं नारद राह दिखाने!

Delhi Public School (RK Puram, Vasant Kunj, and others), New Delhi

As I mentioned in my last post (Tagore International School, East of Kailash, New Delhi), just learned that DPS school website (all the branches) flashing "No Vacancy" message on their sites.

No notice, information has been published by DPS in any of the newspapers so far. What's going to happen this year to pre-primary kids who are 4+ years old is not sure.

Is anyone listening? DOE? Delhi government?

Tagore International School, East of Kailash, New Delhi

लो कल्लो बात! ईस्ट और वेस्ट - हमारी दिल्ली बेस्ट!

No news, information, advt in the newspapers and Tagore International School, (East of Kailash and Vasant Vihar), New Delhi, both the branches have published their admission criteria on their websites. You can hardly find any differences in the forms and rules, except the fact that your kids will have "no entry" at any of these Tagore Intl School branches.

EOK school has 11 seats, out of which 9 are reserved for economically weaker secion and 2 for teacher quota, on other hand Vasant Vihar school has just 6 seats, and all are reserved for economically weaker secion.

Does DOE, Delhi Govt has any answers to this rule, selection critera?
I think it's the time that we all parents should unite and come forward on this forum to stop all this. A recent news read that not many schools have submitted their selection critera to DOE so they had to extend the date till 7th Dec 2007. How long will all this continue? No one knows.....