The School Education Department warned the directors and teachers of disciplinary action if they allowed students to show caste symbols on campus. The department referred to an instance in which some students glorified the Brigoando del Bosque murdered Verappan by showing a shirt with his photo in an annual day event in the district of KrishNagiri recently.
The students of the high school of the Sappanur government danced to a movie song and also wore clothes that represented a political party. This led the parents of other students to express their disgust and also to refuse to send their rooms to school.
Some of them filed complaints with the interested authorities, sources from the Department of School Education said. In a communication sent to the Directors of Education (CEO) or in all districts last week, the director of School Education said that the issue of students who show caste feelings resulted in a violent reaction in the form of complaints from the public.
The reproduction of movie songs should not be allowed or allowing students to use any symbol that can regret a community.
In the event that such complaints were received, disciplinary measures would be taken against the director and the teachers.
The CEOs were also informed that the state government had sanctioned ₹ 15 million rupees to carry out annual day programs in government schools to promote the literary and cultural talents of the students. There is a leg in several cases where school students wore bracelets or tapes to show their caste identity.
The Fifth Commission of the Tamil Nadu police also asked the Department of Education to be sensitive to discriminatory caste practices in government schools and weakened by the government where the problem was acute.
The report says that the Government had banned the use of bracelets or color tapes related to the caste by the students and recommended that the white or black caste ribbons are allowed evenly throughout the state.
Schools that were prone to caste discrimination should not have many teachers that belong to the dominant community.
The Police Commission is used for reference to that hard action to be tasks against teachers who promoted caste discrimination by transferring them to distant places.
“The directors and teachers have an onerous and deep responsibility to guide children in the right direction. All government and government government schools can be under the coverage of an extensive CCTV network to identify students,” Bully students.
Published – April 16, 2025 12:55 am isth