Stepping stone to success?
Play schools want you to think they are imperative for your kid’s nursery admission. Diverse options
If you ask any parent why they want to send their children to a play school, most would answer that what the kids learn there would help them get admission in a ‘reputed’ school. They don’t want their child to lag behind those who would have been to a play school.
Early childhood education is a universally necessity for a child’s growth and development. In Delhi-NCR, however, play schools are mostly seen as a stepping stone to a school of the parents’ choice. It is this belief that has led to the mushrooming of all kinds of play schools in the city in the past decade.
Play schools thrive on this feeling. Most of them claim that their students get admissions easily in sought-after schools. At most play schools, you would find a list of formal schools to which their students got admission pinned up on the notice board, printed in the brochure and posted on their websites.
Apart from smaller schools and well-known play school chains, many formal schools too have started their own pre-school wings. “Though the schools claim they don’t give preference to students of their play schools during nursery admissions, there is an apparent bias towards their own wards,” said Sumit Vohra, founder of admissionsnursery.com, which helps parents seeking nursery admission for their children.
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Anyone with a room to spare can open a play school. In the absence of regulation, most of these don't have adequate infrastructure and safety measures.