District Education Department officials have been directed by the Collector to inquire into a complaint of forceful exclusion of ninth standard students from educational institutions in Kancheepuram district.
The Collector, V.K. Shanmugam had received a written complaint from a resident of Periyanatham near Chengalpattu on Friday, stating that he was asked by the school authorities to collect the transfer certificate of his son, since the boy had failed to clear the class IX examination.
When the complainant contacted the authorities of the government-aided institution, they told him his son’s name had been removed from the school attendance register because the institution’s aim was to achieve 100 per cent results in the class X board exam.
The shocked complainant approached the Collector, seeking his intervention to allow his son to continue in the same school and demanded that the school authorities give his son a second chance to write the exams.
Sources said the Collector immediately called the Chief Education Officer, P. Usha and directed her to look into the complaint.
He also sought a report from the District Education Department about the number of students who had failed to clear class IX exams conducted by the schools in the district and whether re-examinations have been conducted for such students and the outcome of such examinations.
Subsequently, the CEO directed the District Education Officers of Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu Educational Districts to look into the matter and submit the report by next week, sources said.
