HC to examine the right period for pre-primary schooling

Updated on: Monday, January 09, 2012

The Delhi High Court will on Monday examine what should be the right duration for pre-primary schooling before class I.
 
A pision bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw adjourned the matter as the counsel, appearing for various parties, could not conclude their arguments and listed the case for further hearing on January 9.
 
On December 21, the court had declined to stay the nursery admission process as per a plea by an NGO, challenging the city government's recent order allowing unaided private schools here to go ahead with the admission of toddlers older than three years in pre-school (nursery) classes.
 
Advocate Ashok Agarwal, appearing for the NGO Social Jurist, said the entry level for pre-school should be above four years otherwise parents would be forced to get their wards admitted to the school even before they turn four.
  
He said pre-school classes should be separated from pre-primary school classes and the former should not act as a feeder for the latter. He also said it should be optional for parents to get their wards admitted to pre-school.
 
Assailing the process of promotion from pre-school to pre-primary, Agarwal said those who bring their children at earlier age get their wards admitted in the pre-primary. This process is detrimental to those children who do not get their admission at that age, he added.
 
"We want uniform system of education and if government schools are running one year pre-primary school education, unaided private school too should also do so," the NGO said.

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