The Meghalaya High Court recently directed a Shillong school to immediately allow a five-year-old child to attend regular classes, observing that the child stood to “lose” an entire academic year because the school communicated the cancellation of admission only after admissions in most schools across the city had closed. Justice W Diengdoh noted that although the child’s parents failed to attend the school’s induction programme on time, the school had cancelled the admission despite the child having already been selected for admission. “In fact, if such a decision has been conveyed to the parents of the child officially since the month of December, it would have allowed them to look for alternatives.…