Four Students Allegedly Subject to Caste Discrimination at Government School in Chennai
Meghna M. | 27 December 2024 | The Hindu
Four students from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community were allegedly subjected to casteist slurs and discrimination by two teachers in the PCKG Government Higher Secondary School in Kodambakkam here.
In a now viral video, a Class X student details how two teachers — Srinivasan, the physical education teacher, and Meenakshi, a Class X teacher — told him to stop coming to school. “They told me to stop my studies and follow my father’s work; he works at a Hindu burial ground. They would not let me sit in class and threatened to stop teaching the class if I am there,” the student said…