Ignoring RTE, it bars children after parents refuse to pay extra fee.
Several students studying at the Army Public School, JC Nagar have alleged that they were refused entry into classrooms because of their inability to pay an extra fee demanded for the changing of the name of the school. The parents of these students are furious as to how a school can demand almost Rs 21,000 using change of name as an excuse. The school, which was earlier called the Para Regiment School, located near Mekhri Circle, decided to deny entry to students whose parents refused to pay the fee.
The issue has been an ongoing one and has already reached the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR). Following the complaints, the commission has now even issued a notice to the school management on Wednesday. This is the second time a notice has been sent to the school, as in 2012, the High Court had already issued an interim order and directed the school to stop denying education just for the sake of money and to allow these students to attend their classes.
The school authorities have however decided to play a game of hide and seek and claim the interim order was applicable only for the year of 2012 and hence the increased fee demanded this year has to be met with. “Parents approached us regarding the adamant attitude of the school and we think that what the school is doing is a clear violation of Article 17 (1) of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009. We have now decided to consider this measure of the school as physical and mental harassment to students and we have thus issued a notice to the school,” said HR Umesh Aradhya, Chair person KSCPCR.
It is however not just the parents who are complaining. Students from the school have also submitted a complaint to the commissioner for the state department of public instructions stating that, “the school is humiliating us by not allowing us to attend the classes, making us to sit in the visitors room and sometimes even under the hot sun. They are also not providing us with drinking water and insulting us by putting our names on the notice board.” dna tried contacting the principal of the school, Mousumi Dutta, she was however unvailable for comment.
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