Tirunelveli CEO’s guidelines for ensuring orderliness on school premises

As clashes among the students tarnished the image of the district in the past, Chief Educational Officer M. Sivakumar has given guidelines to the heads of the schools and the teachers to ensure orderliness on the school premises.

In a circular to the heads of all schools in the district, Mr. Sivakumar said all the students should wear the uniform approved by the Department of Education and avoid wearing tight three-by-four pants and tight shirts while coming to the school. Hairdressing should be given due importance as the students should follow ‘smart cutting’. Anyone having excess hair and abnormal hairdressing would not be allowed to attend the class.

Bindies and wristbands or ropes in different colours, vests with messages or images exhibiting caste affiliation and stickers on bicycles showing the caste will not be allowed on the school premises.

Girl students should not wear a few bindies on the forehead and avoid colour ribbons while having ‘double braid’. The girl students should always wear the overcoats as prescribed.

The students should not carry any lethal weapons like machete, knife and anything causing injury to the school and the teachers should check the schoolbags every day for banned objects.

All the students should take the personal hygiene pledge in the school assembly every day. Women teachers should educate the girl students on using napkins, disposing them and using the toilets.

The teachers and the heads of the institutions should closely watch the students in case of any minor clash among the students and take appropriate action to bring back normalcy on the school premises. The parents should meet the teachers immediately after every examination to understand about the progress of their children.

The students should be strictly told to avail leave only after getting prior permission of the teacher concerned and anyone who availed leave without getting the teacher’s consent should meet the headmaster along with the parents before attending the class, Mr. Sivakumar said.