Delhi parents rush to buy nursery admission forms
New Delhi: In what can be called a maddening rush, anxious parents on Monday queued up outside private schools in the capital on the first day of sale of forms for nursery admissions. Some of them were left confused by the process which is based on a points system. Under the points system, students would be selected on the basis of points scored by them and their parents. They would be awarded points for various parameters decided by the school, including proximity of their home to the school and siblings studying in the institution. There are special provisions for single parent. Some schools have also decided to give weightage to the parents' educational background. "I don't know how a degree from IIT, IIM or my being a doctor will help my child in nursery admission," said Mini Srinivasan, an anxious mother who had come to buy the admission form at Salwan Public School in central Delhi's Rajinder Nagar. "It is even mentioned in the points system that if a p...