Getting transfer certificates from private schools is a problem

On a busy first day when lower primary school classes reopened on Monday, a house maid from Jeppu was among the many parents who had come to meet Rajeevi, headmistress of the Government Higher Primary

On a busy first day when lower primary school classes reopened on Monday, a house maid from Jeppu was among the many parents who had come to meet Rajeevi, headmistress of the Government Higher Primary School, Bikarnakatte, here. The woman had sought admission in the school and had come to enquire with Ms. Rajeevi whether private school in Bolar, where her daughter was enrolled earlier, had sent the transfer certificate.

Ms. Rajeevi told her about the pending tuition fees that the woman had to clear for the private school at Bolar to send the certificate for admission to Class 3 in the government school. When the woman expressed difficulty in clearing fees, Ms. Rajeevi asked her to approach the office of the Deputy Director of Public Instruction for redressal.

Another woman, whose two children studied in a private school in Kaup, too faced the same problem. After a divorce, just before the start of the lockdown, she moved with her children to her parents house in Shakti Nagar here two years ago. The government school at Bikarnakatte considered the two children as those who have discontinued their studies and admitted them to the lower primary classes.