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Mission admission

The travails faced by parents while admitting their children to nursery schools are lucidly depicted in the article "Mission admission" (Open Page, Sept. 24). In most schools, in the name of shortlisting candidates, parents are put through unnecessary interviews and tests. Does this practice imply that children of the not-so-well-educated parents have no chance of getting admission to `prestigious' schools? Once admitted, the tiny tots are taught irrelevant subjects. Every day parents are given homework.

Such an educational system will do no good to children. The craze of parents, who stand in queues at the gates the previous night to get an application form, is deplorable.

V. Pandy,
Tuticorin, T.N.

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