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The Education department’s determination to propulsion unfastened the doors of 1 of the oldest boys’ schools successful the State to miss students has kicked up a row.
While a conception of erstwhile students from the 233-year-old St. Joseph’s Boys’ Higher Secondary School successful Kozhikode metropolis person objected to the decision, the schoolhouse absorption and unit claimed connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) that the connection for the intent was fixed to the authorities pursuing demands from parents and students. At present, the schoolhouse has implicit 2,400 students from Classes V to XII.
School manager Fr. Pious Vachaparambil told the media that the alteration was portion of the government’s co-education policy. Girl students would beryllium admitted to Plus One classes successful the existent world year. From 2026-27, they would beryllium taken successful Class V successful phases. The absorption has acceptable up infrastructure, including restrooms and washrooms, arsenic well.
Representatives of the absorption and the unit said the instauration was founded successful 1793 to accommodate the children of the British East Company staff. It was taken implicit by the Carmelite priests successful 1861 and aboriginal by the Jesuits successful 1894, erstwhile the schoolhouse began its travel arsenic the St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School. From 1936, Indian students excessively started getting admissions. Former teachers of the schoolhouse see state combatant K. Kelappan.
Functionaries of the ‘1994 alumni association’, however, said successful a merchandise that the determination would deprive the schoolhouse of its humanities presumption arsenic 1 of the oldest boys’ schools successful the State. They pointed retired that Kozhikode City has a fig of aided schools for girls specified arsenic Providence Higher Secondary School, St. Joseph’s Anglo-Indian Girls’ Higher Secondary School, St. Vincent Girls’ Higher Secondary School, and St. Michael’s Girls’ Higher Secondary School. But determination were precise fewer specified institutions for boys. This could trim the acquisition opportunities disposable for them, erstwhile students specified arsenic K. Jithesh, Babinesh Bhaskar, K. Jaikar, and Biju Menon claimed.
They said that the schoolhouse had been founded to guarantee prime acquisition for boys. They wondered if the improvement of the existing infrastructure unsocial would beryllium of immoderate assistance to the students arsenic the absorption was yet to instrumentality immoderate steps towards sex sensitisation. Representatives of the unit and the management, meanwhile, said the alumni radical was not official, and that it had thing to bash with the school.
