Coimbatore Consumer Cause has written to the senior district administration officials and to officials at the Regional Office, Central Board of Secondary Education to look into school re-opening for the 2016-17 academic year right in the middle of summer.
In a letter, the organisation’s secretary K. Kathirmathiyon said that though the State Government had specifically instructed that all schools be closed during May 2016 to beat the heat, a few CBSE schools were functioning here.
The CBSE regional office allowing the schools to function in May could be construed that the students, that too those in primary section, of those schools were being allowed to suffer in summer just because they opted to study under the CBSE system of education.
If District Collectors were to order closure of schools following heavy rains, would the CBSE schools be kept open saying that they did not come under the administrative control of the State Government, he asked and wanted to know whether such an action amounted to exposing the students to risk.
If there was no response from the authorities, the organisation would be forced to seek judicial intervention, considering the health of primary school students who were mostly less than 10 years old, he added.
