A video went viral on social media showing students dressed in their uniforms holding brooms and cleaning the toilets at the school. Nearly 150 students from tribal communities are enrolled in classes 1 to 8 at the school.

Reportedly, parents objected to the tasks assigned to them by the school authorities including maintaining toilets, fetching water, and cleaning the school premises. “We send our kids to study, not to clean,” one of the parents said.

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According to one of the parents, students feel tired after returning home and cannot do their homework. She said that the students are asked to clean the school and toilets instead of learning, which is heartbreaking to see.

The enraged parents also protested outside the school premises.

While addressing the parents’ concerns, the education officer swiftly suspended the school principal and ordered an investigation. Authorities promised a thorough inquiry into the matter and said to ensure students rights and well-being as a priority.

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Similar, incidents have also occured in the past where students were engaged in the cleaning of school premises and toilets. Such visuals gives rise to the debate on the question of attempt to enculcating the habit of cleanliness in children through activities which engage students and on the other hand, the such level of unarbitrary usage of authority.