Cracking whip on another school, state commission of protection of
child rights (SCPCR) on Saturday raided a private school and found
school conducting screen test of students of parents for admission in
Class 6th.
Talking to TOI, Shatabdi Pandey, chairperson, SCPCR, said, "Acting on a tip off and following several complaints from parents, I along with my team member Simi Srivastava, education officers and police went at around 8.30 am to check if the private school Krishna Public School was conducting screen test. We found about 40-50 students and their parents were sitting in classroom with question papers in hand and were writing test."
The team when entered school and inquired, they were told that school management was 'interacting' with parents and denied them entering the classroom. But police and SCPCR team barged in the classroom and accused school of misleading the team with wrong information. Immediately the test was called off.
According to parents, this was the third screen test that was being conducted while few had complained SCPCR about school taking undue advantage of parents seeking admission in schools. "Parents had complained that they were being harassed and were asked to go to another school for admission, which is illegal and violation of section 13 (1) of Right To Education Act."
The matter was handed over to nodal officer and district education officer for further investigation who assured relevant action. School may have to pay fine of Rs 25000-30000.
SCPCR had on April 1, got hold of Holy Cross Byron Bazaar school for conducting screen test of 100 students for admission.
The commission had recently issued guidelines to state education department and conduct surprise inspection to check if students between 0-14 years of age and parents were being asked to undergo screen-test or entrance test during admissions.
Talking to TOI, Shatabdi Pandey, chairperson, SCPCR, said, "Acting on a tip off and following several complaints from parents, I along with my team member Simi Srivastava, education officers and police went at around 8.30 am to check if the private school Krishna Public School was conducting screen test. We found about 40-50 students and their parents were sitting in classroom with question papers in hand and were writing test."
The team when entered school and inquired, they were told that school management was 'interacting' with parents and denied them entering the classroom. But police and SCPCR team barged in the classroom and accused school of misleading the team with wrong information. Immediately the test was called off.
According to parents, this was the third screen test that was being conducted while few had complained SCPCR about school taking undue advantage of parents seeking admission in schools. "Parents had complained that they were being harassed and were asked to go to another school for admission, which is illegal and violation of section 13 (1) of Right To Education Act."
The matter was handed over to nodal officer and district education officer for further investigation who assured relevant action. School may have to pay fine of Rs 25000-30000.
SCPCR had on April 1, got hold of Holy Cross Byron Bazaar school for conducting screen test of 100 students for admission.
The commission had recently issued guidelines to state education department and conduct surprise inspection to check if students between 0-14 years of age and parents were being asked to undergo screen-test or entrance test during admissions.
Courtesy: Rashmi Drolia, ToI