HC advice to parents seeking school admission

May 02, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:34 am IST - MADURAI:

Cautioning parents against trying to gain admission for their children in reputed schools by hook or crook, the Madras High Court Bench here has said such a practice could have a negative impact on the kids.

Justice S. Vaidyanathan also disapproved of the craze among parents to get their children admitted in select schools and said that exemplary children would “come up in their life like twinkling stars” irrespective of the school in which they studied, since the role of educational institutions was limited. The observations were made while dismissing a writ petition filed by an electrician, who attempted to get his son admitted to Kendriya Vidyalaya at Tirupparankundram here under the RTE Act quota for the poor by making a wrong claim with respect to the distance between his residence and the school.

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