Digboi: A teacher belonging to privately administered CBSE-affiliated Little Stars School of Digboi Tinsukia district was suspended by the school management committee here in Tinsukia district following the allegedly slapping of a minor student on May 28.
According to the parents of a 10-year-old student, an art and craft teacher engaged in the Little Stars School was suspended here on Friday for assaulting their minor son in the classroom.
“The action taken by the management committee was communicated verbally by the principal of the school on the phone,” added the mother.
Meanwhile, a person named Popinder Singh one of the office bearers of the school management committee refused to share a copy of the suspension letter with the parents and ironically blamed the child for making noise in the classroom.
“The teacher reacted because the student was shouting in the classroom,”’ advocated Singh while talking to the mother of the victim.
“Your child is our child, we have already initiated steps against the teacher but I cannot share the official document, you better enquire with the principal for the document,” added Singh who was a retired AOD official.
Meanwhile, Rina Kakoty Gogoi the mother of the victim while expressing surprise at the behaviour of Singh alleged that the craft teacher had reacted abnormally toward her son and slapped him unwarranted from behind without any reason.
Moreover, in yet another case of mental harassment to a minor student surfaced earlier in DPS Digboi on May 25, the school management committee is yet to initiate steps from its end.
A minor student of VII standard jumped off the second floor of the school building mysteriously allegedly due to constant mental harassment by one of the teachers of the school.
The minor victim has been undergoing treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital in Dibrugarh since May 25.
She is reportedly recovering gradually and stated to be out of danger, informed a hospital staff.
The rise of growing incidents in the schools involving teachers-students in Digboi has been a matter of great concern chiefly with the CBSE-affiliated private establishments.