School faces action for Std I admission test, State education - TopicsExpress



          

School faces action for Std I admission test, State education officials on Saturday scrapped the admission process to Loyola High School & Junior College in Pashan for holding a written test for Class I admissions, in violation of Right to Education (RTE) Act that makes testing a childs intelligence for admission illegal. A team of officials, acting on a tip-off by The Times of India, confiscated question papers, answer sheets and application forms and asked the school to conduct the admissions afresh in compliance with the RTE Act. The school has also been asked to put up a notice inside its premises announcing that the admission procedure carried so far will now be null and void and admissions would be conducted afresh. School principal Father Peter DCruz, If we do not conduct tests, then we will not be able to choose students to maintain the schools standards. Based on the education departments directive, the school cancelled the admission procedure and said it would consult its management to decide its future course of action and may seek legal advice on this matter. Scores of parents waiting outside for their children to finish the test said the syllabus was vast and they had been sending their children for tuitions to prepare for the exam. On a tipped off Mahavir Mane, state director of education (primary), about the school holding the test. Mane then instructed education officers of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) education board to reach the school. The one-hour test was scheduled to end at 10 am, but extended till 11 am. Education officers reached the school when the test was over. Education officer B K Dahiphale, Dhananjay Pardeshi, deputy education officer and Shivaji Bokhare, assistant administrative officer asked the school principal, Father DCruz, to surrender all the written test papers, question papers and also applications received by the school. Dahiphale said the school has also been asked to follow the guidelines of the RTE for admissions and not have its own policy. The school has 100 seats in Class I and had invited online applications from December 30 to January 7. Parents had to fill up forms online, take print outs and submit it to the school between January 8 and 10. The school had issued admit cards to children seeking admission and it was informed in the application form that the entrance test would be held on January 24. The syllabus the school had put up on its website, a broad indicator for parents on the kind of questions that will be asked in the test. The syllabus included four parts: two written and two oral sections each for English and Maths. As per the syllabus, the question paper included writing capital and small letters, copying a sentence from blackboard and writing in cursive writing, reading simple sentences, nursery rhymes, observational skills, story building, spelling of numbers 1 to 50, recognising colours, shapes, matching them among others.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:05:42 +0000

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