Uncertainty dogs English medium students

Raju Gavali / TNN / Apr 17, 2007, 00:14 IST

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The future of students from derecognised English medium schools hangs in the balance.

Uncertainty dogs English medium students

BELGAUM: Even as the academic year came to an end more than a fortnight ago, the future of students from derecognised English medium schools hangs in the balance with the government not rehabilitating the students.
Such schools are all set to extort parents by setting deadlines for admissions for the next academic year before the last week of April, with the assurance that their respective schools would get recognition during the first quarter of the new academic year.
Though the government has asked these schools not to go ahead with the admission process for the first standard for English medium, the managements of de-recognised schools have not complied and begun the admission process.
Parents of students from these schools who have completed Kindergarten, have been set deadlines for completing the admission process before the end of April, which the parents are opposing. Parents shuttling from on recognised school to another to get admission for their wards, are annoyed by the directives of the schools to complete the admission process and neither the schools nor the government coming to their aid.

It may be recalled, that the government after announcing that students of derecognised schools would be rehabilitated in recognised schools, has gone back on its words. Management committee members of some of the schools de-recognised here say that as they are imparting education under the CBSE syllabus, the state government’s de-recognition was not a hurdle and that they would complete the necessary formalities and get recognition to their schools.

During the announcement of results for the academic year, derecognised school managements had issued directives to parents that if the admission process for the next year was not completed in April, their wards would be denied admission for the next year, even if they studied in the same school.
Management committee members and principals of derecognised schools when contacted declined to comment.
They said that parents had been given a deadline to complete admissions to avoid inconvenience during the next academic year and expressed hoped that their schools would be recognised during the first quarter of the next academic year as a majority of them were imparting education according to the CBSE syllabus.

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