School Admission Today

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Today's children are tomorow's future. Each and every parent has a strong desire that his/her child grows up in a good environment and shines out to be the best, so that he can be socially acceptable and economically strong. As soon as a child reaches the age of 4, ie the minimum requirement for admission, the hunt for the best school begins. A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students (pupils) under the direction of teachers. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. Unfortunately due to the ever-flourishing corruption , which is eating away the roots of the nation ; participates in the process making the task difficult and expensive. Thus keeping in mind the above corrupt-admission phenomenon , a new system of allocation of seats was designed by the government, popularly known as the "Lottery Based System" The lottery system, claims to reduce the level of bribery officially known as the "Donation" and many under-the-hood processes that hamper the admission process. Lottery schemes also greatly aids in easing the case of over-subscription in schools. Under this system, the school management will not conduct any interviews or do any interaction with parents and/or kids, nursery admissions will be done on a totally random basis ,parent’s profession and education will not be taken into consideration but ,still preference can be given to kids living nearby and kids having siblings in the same school where admission is sought. The process is carried out with the help of a lottery machine, the names of the prospective students are collected and inserted in the Lottery Ticket Machine, and mixed. The lucky draw is made and the name of the students as declared in the draw result are called out and admission is done. This way
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