
Palakkad (Kerala) – A class XI student at Anakkara Government Higher Secondary School threatened to kill the School Headmaster as his mobile phone was confiscated. The student was rusticated from the school after the incident.
1. A video of this incident has gone viral. The student can be seen angrily pointing towards the headmaster A.K. Anil Kumar’s office and threatening “You come out of the school, I will kill you.”
2. Mobiles in the school are banned, yet the student violated the rule and brought it to the school. The student threatened the headmaster when his mobile was confiscated. The Parents-Teachers Association has lodged a Police complaint against this. Education department is investigating the matter.
3. The president of Parents-Teachers Association and a member of Anakkara Panchayat V.P. Shibu informed, “The Parents-Teachers Association had strictly banned mobile phones in the school. The confiscated mobiles are returned to the parents later. But they have to go to the school to collect those.”
Editorial PerspectiveThis incident shows the importance of value-based education in the schools. Will the politicians ever think about it ? |