A private school in Karachi punished a little girl by forcing her to stand on one leg outside her class after her father failed to pay additional fee demanded by its management.
The incident came to light after her father’s video, in which he was seen protesting outside school, went viral over social media.
In the video, the father questioned why did they punish his daughter given that he was the one who did not pay the additional amount. In addition, he added that he always paid the amount on time and the school’s management suddenly started charging extra fee.
On the contrary, the school’s administration claimed that the girl’s fee had not been paid since 2019, which is why she was forced to stand outside the class for 15 minutes as a penalty.
In this regard, Sindh’s Education Department has started an investigation into the matter and has directed the school not to charge any fee from her until the investigation concludes.
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Exemplary punishment is required
surely you mean the school, right?
Management talk about her father butt not punishment kid’s.. there’s not fault of kid’s..
The way the school handled the non payment of fees is not a punishment, rather an extortion. The message they are giving to the parent is, either you pay the fees and arrange money anyway you can, or we will hurt your child. The person who made the decision to punish the child must be punished and the management should be fined to have allowed such an act happen on their premises.
There are a lot of less draconian actions the school could have taken to send the message to the parents, e.g. sending the child back home, not checking the child’s classwork/homework etc.
Government should cancel the registration of the institutes and shut down such schools involved in punishing students in future if it happens again.
School management should call the parents about the issue. Students should not be punished and let him to continue the studies.