Lucknow: Parents stage protest, raise concern over children’s safety

Protest lasts for many hours, ends after cops assure appropriate action against school management.

Angry over the stabbing incident and concerned over children’s safety on the campus, hundreds of parents gathered outside Brightland School here on Thursday and shouted slogans against the school management, accusing them of negligence.

The school management addressing parents and assuring them of children’s safety on the campus. (HT)

The protest lasted for many hours and ended after the police’s assurance that appropriate action would be taken against the management.

The parents started gathering at the school since morning, but slogan shouting started when the school got over for the day. In retaliation, some students of senior classes started shouting slogans in favour of the school. At this, parents accused the school administration of “using students in their favour.”

She said after the incident, the injured boy was immediately rushed to the hospital only because of the school staff’s alertness. The suspect girl was also identified immediately by the management, added Reena Manas.

The director said the school management would increase the number of close circuit television cameras on the premises. Though cameras were installed at multiple places in the school, more would be installed at other places that were so far not under video surveillance, she emphasised.

Kamlesh Rajput, a parent, said his two children were studying in this school and he was scared after reading the entire episode in newspapers on Thursday morning. He said he could not stop himself from visiting the institution.

Another parent Anil Kumar said the school’s theory that a Class 7 girl stabbed the Class 1 boy just because of getting the school closed did not seem to be very genuine. He said the school administration was hiding some facts.