Schools challenge credentials of CPA

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 11

Four private schools who are facing inquiry for seeking indemnity bonds from parents before admissions have questioned the credentials of the Chandigarh Parents’ Association (CPA).

District Education Officer (DEO) Anujit Kaur is conducting the inquiry and had called the school principals concerned today.

“The schools have raised the issue of credentials of the Chandigarh Parents’ Association (CPA). They are claiming that neither the complaint is by any parent nor the CPA is a registered association or NGO. They have asked the department first to clarify on the issue of complaint, and then they would submit their written replies,” said the DEO.

Schools have told the DEO that earlier too they had taken similar undertakings and there was nothing wrong in it.

According to the CPA, St John’s High School, Sector 26; Carmel Convent School, Sector 9; Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Sector 26; and Chitkara International School, Sector 25, have demanded indemnity bonds from parents.

“We wonder why the school managements are not confident about the security measures and their own administration. Rather they are so sure that some mishappening will happen and the child will get hurt within the school premises in future. Thus, the urgency of a bond is basically to safeguard their own selfish selves and not the children as has been implied by the school authorities,” said Goyal in the complaint.