• By Nidhi Giri
  • Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:04 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

A government school teacher in Telangana's Khammam was suspended after she chopped off the hair of 15 male students as she felt it was long. The incident took place in Kalluru mandal of the district on Saturday. The English teacher has been placed under suspension pending enquiry, education department officials informed on Sunday.

The teacher trimmed the hair of nearly 15 students of class 8,9 and 10 in the school premises using scissors, the officials added. The parents staged a protest in front of the school after their children informed them about the teacher's act.

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"It (resorting to hair cut) is not the job of teachers. If they (the students) are irregular and if they were indisciplined, she could have informed their parents and should not have acted like that (cutting hair of students)," the official said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

The woman teacher on her part said the students were advised several times to get a haircut as they were found attending the classes with long hair.

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"As the students failed to do so she had to cut their hair", the teacher told the media adding that she didn't feel that it was wrong to do so. Though she said some students had "objected" to cutting their hair.

(With PTI Inputs)