The Gujarat government has ordered an inquiry into the affairs of a minority institution in Ahmedabad where a six-year-old student of class one was reportedly paraded naked in the all-girl school and made to clean toilets. All because she had not completed her home work and the class teacher found her handwriting to be “too bad.”
The class teacher was arrested after the parents lodged a police complaint against her and some of the trustees of the private high school in the minority-dominated area of Shahpur in the heart of the city.
School unregistered
Investigations made by officials found that the school was neither recognised nor registered with the State or Central governments, but the minority institution was functioning for the last 19 years.
The incident occurred on Friday, but the girl kept quiet and, under threat from the class teacher, did not even inform the incident to her parents till one of her schoolmates spilled the beans on Monday after the girl showed reluctance to go to school.
Parents enraged
As the word spread in the neighbourhood, the enraged parents first tried to meet the trustees of the school and, after failing to get a satisfactory answer, lodged a complaint with the Shahpur police.
According to District Education Officer R.H. Patel, though the school was unregistered, the government had taken cognisance of the incident and would go to the root of the problem.
According to the father of the girl, she was stripped naked, made to do sit-ups, paraded in the school naked, was forced to clean the toilets and was locked in there for a few hours.
Though it is an all-girl school, some of the class four staff members are male and her parents felt outraged that she was watched by some male staff when paraded naked in the school. The trustees, however, claimed that only her veil was removed by the teacher.
Charge against trustees
This, however, is reportedly not the first such incident in the school. Another guardian complained that his daughter was given a similar punishment by the same teacher in March. When he tried to lodge a complaint against her with the trustees, he, in turn, was named in a police compliant lodged by the trustees.
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Words fail me. Perhaps the teacher concerned should be removed her veil or similarly treated by the authorities. To do it to a child of six years is a crime against humanity.
People are sick.Why cant teachers consider kids as kids instead of doing such heinous crime.
The Government should take an action to ban such persons /teachers .Issues of these kind should be handled by Government and strict laws have to be there to reduce such activities and public should be bold enough to report and go against anyone.The teacher who is involving herself in such activities should be made withdrawn from her profession forever.Things like this,will affect the child's mental well being.
Very bad incident. Teachers should be given periodical training in child schychology. Puninishment is damaging to the growing minds.
Why don't you mention the name of the school so that public can avoid admitting their children to such a school?
How barbaric of the teacher to mete out such a bizarre punishment for omitting to do the homework.That such gross acts are perpetrated in a school in the country is not only shameful but terribly shocking.The Government should order the immediate closure of the school and make arrangement to take over the running of the institution upon itself.As for the teacher,it would be in the fitness of things if she were paraded similarly on the streets of the city.
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