Schools want info about drug-addicted students

School managements say the refusal of the excise department to share with them the names of students involved in the recent drug bust will hamper their effort at counselling them.

Schools have been told that only parents and counselors appointed by the government will get the personal details of the students.

Schools are set to tighten their monitoring systems in general. Sreenidhi International School Principal G. Srinagasan said, “We have decided to conduct a series of counselling sessions. We will make sure that no student loiters around the school

We have issued instructions to sensitise teachers, students to drug abuse, no corrective action can be taken against children specifically. — VARALAKSHMI MOGALI Jubilee Hyderabad school principal

after hours. We will try to check how students are travelling back after school.”

Many schools like Hyderabad Public School, Delhi Public School, Johnson Grammar School, Chirec and others said they had a zero tolerance policy towards substance abuse. In a list of 17 schools has been circulated on social media, the names of 10 have been found to have students who use drugs.

Ms Sunitha Rao, Principal of Delhi Public School, said, “Our constant monitoring and counselling system ensures that we will not have to face such an issue.”

Hyderabad Public School has decided to keep a check on vendors normally stationed outside a school. HPS-Begumpet Principal Lalita Shankar said, “We will try to make sure that every child is going home or to a place where they have taken their parents’ permission, after school. We had a system of students dropping their phones with the security. We will not be accepting smartphones henceforth.”