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High Court ruling

This refers to the Madras High Court ruling that schools cannot deny their students admission to class XI. There are different disciplines of study that have different requirements. Therefore schools evolve their own criteria for admission. Students who cannot get subjects of their choice in a school are bound to seek admission in other schools. How can the government or the court hinder this? The total number of vacancies in XI standard is less than the number of candidates passing out of class X. Hence schools are forced to adopt a yardstick to eliminate a few of their own candidates. This factor should be taken into account.

S.T. Daniel,
Chennai

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The court should have asked for the rule to be implemented from the next academic year as admissions are almost over in most of the schools. This would have ensured that there was no uncertainty over the future of students and also provided more time to consider the complexities of the issue.

R. Bharath,
Chennai

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