HC directs govt to instruct schools to notify admission norms

The Madras High Court has ruled that a student who has completed tenth standard in a CBSE school cannot claim automatic admission to 11th class, if the school switches affiliation to state board.
It also directed the state government to instruct all schools to notify admission norms in advance.
A division bench, comprising Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao and Justice SS Sundar, gave the direction while allowing an appeal by a private school in Tuticorin district, against a single judge order to admit a student to the appellant school.
The bench said, if the school offered state board education for 11th class and the student who pursued his or her education under CBSE, till tenth, was ready to continue their education under state board, then his continuation can be considered.

"It is for the student to exercise the option to either continue in state board or CBSE. Yet, the student should apply afresh for admission if he wants to continue," the bench said.
The school contended that 93 students had passed in tenth standard under CBSE system in 2015-16. Since the school offered only two groups with biology and mathematics as majors, all of them could not be accommodated as per the state government norms.
The court concurred with the argument of the student's counsel that the schools should have published the government norms in advance for admission to 11th class so that pupils were not left disappointed.

The judges then directed the state government to instruct all the schools to notify the norms for admission to 11th class, in advance.