The school’s opposition comes despite a court-constituted expert committee underlining on Tuesday that the child is fit to be admitted in a regular school with a “shadow teacher”The Delhi High Court, while hearing a plea by a private school against readmitting a child diagnosed with autism, remarked Tuesday that one of the tasks society should bear is that of ensuring the inclusion of neurodivergent children into the mainstream.A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, was hearing an appeal filed by the GD Goenka school, against a single Judge’s order of July 1, directing the school to readmit the child to an age-appropriate class.The school’s opposition comes despite a court-constituted expert committee underlining on Tuesday that the child is fit to be admitted in a regular school with a “shadow teacher” who may assist the child instead of a special needs school. This is the second time a court-constituted expert panel had deemed the child fit to be readmitted back to the school.While hearing the school’s objections to the expert committee’s opinion on Tuesday, Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya, heading the division bench, orally remarked, “One of the tasks the society should bear is their (neurodivergent children’s) inclusion (in the mainstream)…”Opposing the court’s July 1 directive, the school subsequently filed an appeal arguing that the student cannot continue in the school as “certain past incidents along with her present medical condition may not be conducive for her classmates.”To strengthen its case, the school cited a report from Moolchand Medicity, New Delhi, wherein the child’s admission in a “specialised holistic developmental program” was recommended “to ensure safety, developmental progress and long-term well-being for the child.”Following the appeal to the single judge’s order, the division bench on August 5 had constituted another expert panel for the child’s evaluation for a second time.