School staff in hot water over board affiliation
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Jan 25, 2023, 06:00 IST
By Ahna Prakash
A school in Nagarbhavi which claims to have Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliation has come under fire from the students' parents.
Parents allege that the administration of the school was lying about the CBSE affiliation and the school has a state board affiliation from the 1st standard to the 8th standard.
Parents gathered around the school on January 4 to protest, when the school handed out the state board syllabus to students one month before their exam.
Yashaswini, whose child studies in Class 5, says that the school took lakhs of money from the parents and cheated them.
"We didn't have any idea that the school was not affiliated to the CBSE. My child was given state syllabus books and we were informed that the examinations would be conducted on the basis of state syllabus," she told BM.
She also added that it was difficult to teach young kids a new syllabus in a span of just a month.
"For a year, my kid was studying CBSE books but now all of a sudden, the syllabus has changed. So how do they expect us to be able to teach a completely new syllabus to 12-year-olds?" she added.
Parents claimed that when they approached the school authorities, they were not ready to give a TC or refund the fees.
"The school administration told us that it doesn't matter if the child is studying from CBSE or state board if the student is below Grade 9. So, our main query is that if it doesn't matter and all the boards are the same, why are we being charged Rs 1.5 lakh?" asked a parent.
The State Education Department has assured the parents that they will be investigating the matter.