Politics in Kerala plumbed shameful depths when a teacher in the most literate state of the country turned on a group of four primary school kids and thrashed them on the basis of a complaint from a local CPM boss who accused them of damaging the party's posters outside the school.
In what must set a new benchmark for reprehensible conduct, the four students — Ajin Dev, Akhil Dev, Anoy and Shobin, all students between ages seven and nine of government-run primary school in Kozhikode — were beaten up by their teacher on October 23, as a result of which the traumatised kids have refused to go to their school.
Following a complaint by their parents, the police have registered a case of threatening and hurting minors against CPM leader Yugesh Babu, who is also a member of the local gram panchayat, along with the headmaster and their woman class teacher.
The controversy assumed a bizarre political twist with rumours flying thick that the kids had to pay for the political beliefs of their parents, who, it is learnt, are sympathisers of another party. As a result of the rumours, the district education office has stepped in and an inquiry is being conducted by the assistant education officer.
In what must set a new benchmark for reprehensible conduct, the four students — Ajin Dev, Akhil Dev, Anoy and Shobin, all students between ages seven and nine of government-run primary school in Kozhikode — were beaten up by their teacher on October 23, as a result of which the traumatised kids have refused to go to their school.
Following a complaint by their parents, the police have registered a case of threatening and hurting minors against CPM leader Yugesh Babu, who is also a member of the local gram panchayat, along with the headmaster and their woman class teacher.
The controversy assumed a bizarre political twist with rumours flying thick that the kids had to pay for the political beliefs of their parents, who, it is learnt, are sympathisers of another party. As a result of the rumours, the district education office has stepped in and an inquiry is being conducted by the assistant education officer.
This is where our country is going to. Such politicians and "teachers" should be made examples of and severely punished, should be made social outcasts. If a highly literate state like Kerala has such incidents involving educators where is the hope for the rest . And this is not the first time the communists in Kerala have taken to violence for not adhering to their ideologies.
