Kids Admission: A Test Of Patience For Parents

It’s a different ball game with Chaya Singh’s two-and-a-half-year-old daughter all set to start school this summer. But before Anjali can be interviewed, Chaya herself is preparing to be interviewed by the school authorities. She hopes three months of intensive English speaking classes will make her interview-fit. Chaya is not the only parent; a number of them can now be found at etiquette and personality development classes to improve their scores in the test of parental efficiency as schools shift the performance baseline from testing kids to now testing the parents.



Mrs. Sarkar, the mother of four-year-old Sumitra, has lately been subscribing to competitive magazines like competition success review and Manorama to brush up on her general knowledge for the interview. Mr. and Mrs. Vikram Singh contacted their friends with children in schools and those who had recently attended interviews at schools for a list of likely interview questions that could be asked inorder to rehearse a mock interview at home.



The race for nursery admissions is churning out competitive parents, eager to reach the finish line. It no longer a race for child vs child, the race is in the academic world is now between parents vs parents till the child gets in and thereafter between and tutors vs tutors once the academic schedule begins. Sadly, a number of parents seeking admission into prestigious schools for their children feel that conversational English played an important role in the success or failure of their childs’ chances of qualifying for a reputable school, but in an interview with education times, a supplement of Times of India, a popular English daily in India, Mrs. Cherian, principal of a English medium school, said that language barely mattered.



The language fluency of the parents was not the criterion by which children were admitted into a school. On the contrary, the aim was to filter parents genuinely interested in viewing education as a necessity and to cooperate with the school in achieving that goal. Lots depended on the way they understood the functioning of a school, the way they perceived the concept of the Indian education system, the extent to which they were ready to cooperate with the school and education authorities in the development of their child etc.



These were the expectations of the school. Parul Gupta was more interested in creating the right impression at the interview and dint mind working hard for it. She felt if children were being prepared for an interview, why should parents take it so casually? "What if they lose out on the seat just because we didn’t do our part well?". The principal of Gyanndeep Public School Mohsina Peerbuoy, the sudden shift in schools focusing on the parent from the child was the result of research in the education field.



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