Parents allege their kids forced to clean toilets

Erode: Parents of seven students of a government elementary school at

Mullampatty

near Perundurai on Monday petitioned district collector H

Krishnanunni

seeking action against a teacher for allegedly forcing their children to clean the school toilets. A video of the students cleaning the school toilet went viral on social media recently.Talking to TOI, one of the parents P Semalai said the schoolteacher, Sudha, ordered the students to clean the toilets and broom the classrooms. “She would give corporal punishments to the students if they refused to do so,” he said, adding that the headmistress Mythili too supported Sudha on this.The parents alleged that the teacher would force only SC/ST students to clean the toilets and to broom the classrooms.One of the parents said that the school headmistress and the teacher took a few students and their parents to housing board minister

K Muthusamy

on Saturday and forced them to tell the minister that the video was wrong.After receiving the petition, the collector forwarded it to the district chief educational officer (CEO) Ramakrishnan for departmental inquiry. “I have formed a team and initiated an inquiry,” he said. Meanwhile,

AMMK

general secretary TTV Dhinakaran tweeted saying that he was shocked to see the students cleaning the toilet in the video. tnn