Jabalpur School Punishes 300+ Students for Being 5 Minutes Late
St. Aloysius School of Polipather, Jabalpur punished its more than 300 students for arriving barely 5 minutes late. Parents claim that this was the school’s way to take revenge on them.
A school is one of the most important aspects of human life. Apart from education, it also teaches us to be better human beings by being kind and forgiving.
But it looks like a school has forgotten to follow its own teaching.
St. Aloysius School in Polipather, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh punished over 300 students for arriving just 5 minutes late on 31st July 2024. The students were made to stand in the scorching sun with their heavy bags for more than an hour. This left the primary-class (1st to 4th class) children scared and crying.
Parents who had come to drop off their kids were angry. They tried talking to the school’s administration department through the office window, but it was of no use. They informed other parents and offered mobile phones to students to inform their parents about the issue.
Videos of hundreds of students in white uniforms standing outside the school and in the compound next to their parents are circulating on news platforms. Some videos show small children crying and others talking to their parents on mobile phones.
More parents rushed to the school. Some even informed Jabalpur police, who visited the school immediately. Local news channels also reached the school to cover the incident and speak to the parents. After a heated commotion, the school allowed the students to enter their classrooms at around 8:30 am.
According to reports, parents accused the school of pre-planning the incident to deny their children entry into the school premises. The parents told media reporters that the school management sent them texts informing them about the revised rules and timings at 11 pm the previous night, but by then most had already slept.
The text read that from 31st July onwards, the main gate would be closed at 7:20 AM (instead of 7:30 AM), and late students would not be allowed in. When parents saw the message the next morning, they rushed their children to school and were late by no more than 5 minutes.
Parents allege that changing timings suddenly with immediate effect and informing them late was the school’s way of retaliating against the parents for filing a case against it and principal Soma George for charging random and high fees. They have decided to add this incident to the already filed case and have requested a meeting with Jabalpur district collector Deepak Kumar Saxena to address the matter.
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