Inspired by a segment that deals with filial duties and love of parents in the English textbook in Classes IX and X, students of Santhinikethan Secondary School, Thiruvallur, Vadakara, organised a programme on the campus on Monday to reaffirm their love for parents and take a pledge that they would not allow their parents to end up in old-age homes.
Around 100 students of standards IX and X attended the programme, organised under the aegis of the English Club at the school.
Club coordinator and English teacher Vadayakkandy Narayanan said the programme was timed with the completion of two units in the English textbooks, Roots and Generations , in the respective classes, that dealt with parental love and filial duties in different literary genres, including prose and poetries.
The students, who took out a procession on the school premises holding placards that made known their uncompromising love for their parents, also composed poems and short stories on the theme.
The participants also took an oath at the ‘Love Circle’ they created on the school ground, as a culmination of the event, reiterating their love of blood relations and filial obligation.
Prior to the programme, students were asked to collect cuttings from newspapers on news related to abandoned parents and those on elderly people being left at old-age homes by their children.
“This was done to give the students a fair idea of what was happening in society with regard to the parent-children relationship,” said Mr. Narayanan, who flagged off the students’ procession as part of the programme.
Students’ leaders T.M. Ameera, T.P. Shamsiya, C.K. Ashifa, V.M. Arunima, and R. Adithya coordinated the programme.