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The aviator task of the ambitious Karnataka Public School (KPS Magnet School) successful Honganuru, Channapatna taluk, Bengaluru South district, has failed to instrumentality disconnected and is resisting terrible absorption from parents and villagers connected the ground.
Seven authorities schools from surrounding villages, with a combined spot of 392 students, were to beryllium merged with the KPS successful Honganuru. However, lone 2 schools with a full of 22 students person been merged, and of them, lone 7 students person begun attending the KPS Magnet School. The merging of schools successful the remaining 5 villages has been powerfully opposed by students and parents.
Notices to teachers
However, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has present issued notices to teachers of the schools successful the 5 villages — Hodike Hosahalli, Kannidoddy, Ammallidoddi, Santemogenahalli, and Sunnaghatta — accusing them of failing to person parents and students astir the intent of KPS Magnet Schools, their benefits, and the facilities disposable successful these schools. “Appropriate enactment should beryllium taken to contented Transfer Certificates (TCs) to the children by March 11, 2026, aft persuading the parents. Failure to bash truthful volition effect successful disciplinary action,” warned the notices issued to the teachers by Ramalingaiah K., Block Education Officer (BEO) of Channapatna.
Pilot project
The State authorities is readying to commencement 800 KPS schools crossed the State to amended the prime of education. It aims to merge adjacent schools with these KPS ‘Magnet’ schools and person them into schools with bully facilities.
The KPS School successful Honganuru was chosen arsenic the aviator for this. On October 25, 2025, it was suggested to merge little and higher superior authorities schools successful 7 adjacent villages with this school, on with their students, teachers, and furniture. A backstage autobus has been hired to transport the children from the merged schools to the KPS Magnet School successful Honganuru.
However, parents who bash not hold with the merger of schools person expressed their absorption to sending their children to the KPS Magnet School. Additionally, parents and students person staged protests successful their villages and astatine the taluk office successful Channapatna.
Currently, lone Channankegoudana Doddi School, which has 2 students, and Mogenahalli Doddi School, which has 20 students, person been merged with KPS Magnet Schools successful Honganuru. Out of the 20 students from Mogenahalli Doddi School, lone 5 students are going to KPS Magnet School.
The merger of the remaining schools successful Hodike Hosahalli with 77 students, Kannidoddi with 82 students, Ammallidoddi with 31 students, Santhemogenahalli with 100 students, and Sunnaghatta with 80 students, has been met with beardown opposition.
The DSEL has present held teachers liable for failing to pull students and parents to the KPS Magnet School successful Honganuru.
Stuck betwixt parents and authorities
“Meetings person been held with the parents 8 times since November, 2025. However, nary of them agrees to the merger and to enrol their children successful the KPS Magnet School. Despite reporting this to the section 8 times, the BEO is issuing notices again and again. We are stuck successful a deadlock betwixt the authorities and the parents. We don’t cognize what to do. No 1 is listening to our problems,” lamented a teacher from a schoolhouse that is to beryllium merged with the aviator KPS Magnet School.
“The KPS Magnet School task is good. However, parents are opposing the merger of adjacent schools. Schools are not conscionable places of acquisition but are besides taste assets of the respective villages. Therefore, the task should beryllium implemented by convincing the villagers with the assistance of the government, section MLAs, district-level officials, including the Deputy Commissioner and different nationalist representatives,” said different teacher.
The AIDSO pupil organisation has expressed beardown absorption to the constitution of KPS Magnet Schools. In his statement, Ajay Kamath, State caput of AIDSO, said the authorities should heed locals’ protests and driblet the proposal, and warned that, if not, the conflict would lone intensify.
