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The District School Education Department initiated an enquiry connected February 13, 2026 (Friday) aft parents alleged that 5 Class V Scheduled Caste students were forced to cleanable toilets astatine a Panchayat Union Primary School successful Thottipalayam colony successful SS Kulam artifact of Coimbatore district.
According to the parents, the children were made to cleanable the toilets connected a rotational basis, an enactment they said amounted to kid maltreatment and caste-based discrimination. The headmistress, however, denied the allegations, stating that she had lone instructed the students to lavation their legs aft utilizing the toilet and had not asked them to cleanable it.
Sources said the parents, on with the colony head, visited the schoolhouse connected Friday and questioned the headmistress regarding the issue. Following this, the Block Educational Officer (BEO) inspected the schoolhouse and conducted an inquiry.
Meanwhile, a video circulating connected societal media features a parent alleging that her lad was made to cleanable the toilet erstwhile each 2 days for the past fewer months connected the headmistress’s instructions, with a abstracted attendance registry allegedly maintained for the task.
She claimed that her lad was beaten and threatened with the issuance of a transportation certificate if helium failed to comply with the instruction, forcing him to enactment distant from schoolhouse for astir 2 weeks. She said she learnt of the contented lone aft repeatedly questioning him astir his absence, pursuing which helium disclosed that helium and 4 different Class V students were being made to cleanable the toilet.
Further investigations are on.
