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The Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium (VJG) website states that to enter this school or transfer to the ninth (1st) class of the gym, it is necessary to participate in a two-stage competition. It consists of a test and an interview with the admissions committee. Each of them is evaluated by points. Additional points are also awarded according to certain criteria, there are nine of them.
One of these criteria is “Children of large families”, for which an additional score of 4.25 is given.
S.Vaičius is raising three children, so his family is a big boy, he only says that he did not initially submit documents on this criterion to the school, because the other two children are adults and do not live together. However, after the first stage, he thought that he had made a mistake and that the daughter of those few scores could be missing, so he contacted the jury.
“I am calling,” he said, “yes, of course, you are a large family, we will go to the director and report. I think the error occurred, it will be fixed. The final results have not yet been recorded, only the intermediate ones”, – remembers S .Vaičius.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium
The family was quiet for a time and waited for the results at the end of the second round of membership. However, when they arrived, S.Vaičius saw that an additional 4.25 points had not been added to his daughter’s overall assessment, and therefore his daughter did not go to school. 84 students were admitted to the gym’s ninth grade, and their girl remained 86.
It is true how many votes the last student who came to school does not know, says S. Vaičius, because these data are confidential. However, he assures that the differences are very small and with the additional scores the daughters would have been successful.
Surprised by the director’s reluctance to listen
However, even then, the family did not lose hope. After noticing that an error had infiltrated the assessment and could be corrected, S.Vaičius attempted to contact the school principal by phone. However, the classroom teacher did not share the principal’s contacts and replied that “we cannot strictly give the principal’s number.”
He received a similar response when he went to school. There, a watchdog who trusted the man said the principal did not want to speak and offered to drop out of school.
“They just kicked me out. My daughter was not only expelled from school because of those four points she did not add, but she did not bother to hear from the principal and say something human that was perhaps wrong, I did not add. But the watcher said the director is strictly saying: Don’t share any contacts and send everyone home.
So inhumane, at least for a listened person, nobody cares. The guard threw me into the street and says, “I’m going to ask for protection,” says the girl’s father.
I just got kicked out.
He argues that generally a Jesuit gymnasium declares human behavior based on religious respect, and in such a situation does not even bother to listen.
“Maybe I had some kind of emergency that happened to me,” he was indifferent.
It does not meet because it wants to guarantee “equality”
15 minutes Sister Edita Šicaite, the gym director, could not be reached by phone, but agreed to email her comments. The principal says the situation is known to the school.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium
“By applying for admission to the gym, each family confirms that they have read the description of the admission procedure and agree to the admission procedure. When submitting the application, the candidate code is provided and the family has the opportunity to correct the data submitted along with the application, to inform the Admissions Committee on the specified date (this year, before May 4). The candidate’s family is responsible for the precision and timeliness of the data (before the start of the first stage), “said the director of the situation.
After the announcement of the results of the first stage, according to her, the data is no longer modified, therefore, the school could not have made the changes S.Vaičius expected.
“The admissions committee, which has made an exception for this candidate’s family, should make exceptions for any family that does not provide the data evaluated during admission in a timely manner,” explains the director.
However, no one had given these answers to either the student or the parents before.
When asked why the principal did not agree to speak to S. Vačius on the phone or when he arrived at the school, E. Šicaitė says that such “meetings with families and candidates upon entering the gym are not organized according to the principles of equality and transparency. “
If you don’t make it to the Jesuit gym, it’s too late to get to others.
Due to quarantine, many schools, which generally take entrance exams, made an exception this year and admitted students based on grade point averages. The VJG did not reject the entrance tests and “accepted the challenge of taking the test remotely.”
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium
However, S.Vaičius says the entrance exams were delayed, therefore the family received the admission results only on May 29.
Students had to wait for the results of the VJG entry competition before May 31 inclusive. the date when the enrollment application can be submitted to other Vilnius schools.
However, this is already later than the end of admission to other gyms: Vilnius Lyceum, Mykolas Biržiška and Žirmūnai, where admission is also through an entry competition. As a result, many doors were closed for a well-educated girl.
“The parents’ request was written, but the school ignored it and made the selection,” S. Vačius is outraged by the school’s indifference. Therefore, next year, even if he does not want to, his daughter will go to the school of Grigišk que, which belongs to him according to the place of residence.
The VJG chief says that the parents’ appeal should not be called a petition. According to her, the representatives of the parents of the gym students presented proposals to update the description of the admission procedure, which were taken into account: “they adjusted the number of points that can be awarded during admission to the candidates who study in the VJG “.
A parent request was written, but the school did not take this into account and carried out the selection.
He also claims that adjusting the dates of the entrance exams is not an exceptional case of his school, it had to be done throughout Lithuania. However, it ensures that the dates of admission are favorable for the candidates.
“Any family of candidates who decides to participate in the admission stages must decide to accept one or the other fact of the membership experience and take responsibility for providing the data that will be evaluated in a timely manner during the competition,” said the director.
Parents are careful that the evaluation is too strict.
S.Vaičius emphasizes that the evaluation in the Jesuit gym is very strict. As a result, in a situation like this year, where many of the schools that administer the competition admitted students based on their averages, inequality arose.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium
For example, her daughter’s average is 8.8, when in secondary school in Lithuania, according to S.Vaičius, it would be equal to 10, because the evaluation in the Jesuit gym is very strict.
“It just came to our attention then. He says his grades are the way they are. But realistically, if our son doesn’t get into the ninth grade with the average you think, there’s no chance he’ll get to a better school, because those grades they are really unequal with other schools, “he said. The worst is not even because of the result, but because of the director’s indifference.
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