Education has become a hot topic in Sri Lankan politics today in the wake of a controversial Supreme Court ruling on a fundamental rights petition challenging the government policy on admission for grade one in schools.
In some quarters, the ruling which spelt out a set of guidelines for school admission was seen as judicial activism. But others protested, saying the judiciary should not interfere in what is exclusively a matter for the executive and the legislative branches of the government. Supporters of the judgment argued that if the government is not administering, somebody has to.
In some quarters, the ruling which spelt out a set of guidelines for school admission was seen as judicial activism. But others protested, saying the judiciary should not interfere in what is exclusively a matter for the executive and the legislative branches of the government. Supporters of the judgment argued that if the government is not administering, somebody has to.
The Supreme Court ruling, inter alia, called for aptitude tests for five-year-old children seeking grade one admission and marks to be allocated on the basis of the education qualification of their parents.
The guidelines close the doors of popular schools to children of parents with poor education background. A child of a carpenter with Grade Ten education will only have a slim chance of getting admission to a popular school while a child of a degree holding professional is assured of a place.
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