A badly-spelt handwritten note to parents asking them not to wear nighties, shorts or burqas while dropping their children to Navodaya Kishore Kendra in Kuvempunagar, Bangalore North, triggered of tension, with several parents protesting it.
The contention of a parent, Mohammed Almeem, was that the management of the school had insisted that women remove their burqas while picking up children. Of the 750 children studying from kindergarten to Class X, nearly 50 per cent are said to be Muslim.
School headmaster Prakash clarified that they had not asked the women to take off the burqa, but just remove the veil and show the school staff their faces, when they collected the children.'' At times we do not even know who has come to pick up the children and the rule was to ensure the safety of the children, as there are chances for miscreants to wear burkha and kidnap students,'' he said.
The school also said that dropping and picking up children wearing a nightie or shorts was ''indecent.'' It asked parents to come in 'formal dress'. The school is owned by E Krishnappa, husband of c from the Congress. With some parents resorting to slogan-shouting in front of the school, Vidyaranyapura police had to intervene. They counselled the parents and the school authorities, following which the directive was withdrawn.
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