La Martiniere rusticates 12 students for hooliganism

LUCKNOW: La Martiniere College, Lucknow has rusticated twelve Class 12 students for raising slogans against the principal and teachers.

They have been barred from attending classes or taking part in any college function. They will also not be allowed to write their pre-board examination scheduled to be held in January 2018. The college will, however, allow them to appear in the board examinations.

The rusticated students will not be issued “character certificate” as well.

According to the college, during the “last day in khaki” celebrations on November 24, the rusticated students raised slogans against teachers and the principal.

The video of the incident went viral on social media. The school then scanned the video and identified 12 of its ISC students involved in raising slogans. Their parents were called and the video was played for them on a projector. The college management has informed the parents about the action taken against the boys. The college management said a group of old students instigated the present class 12 students, who created the ruckus. A total of 11 old boys were apprehended by the police.

The college has asked the Alumni Association president Jaideep Mathur to expel the 11 old students from the college alumni.

The parents of the rusticated students were asked to escort their children to and from the examination hall during the board examination in 2018 as the school refused to take any responsibility of the boys’ security. “There is a general dissatisfaction and anger regarding the boys’ behaviour that might lead to consequences, which the col- lege shall not be able to control,” the college said in letters to the rusticated students’ parents. “Your son has, in his last days as pupil in this college, brought disgrace for which he will not be permitted to join the alumni association,” reads the letter sent to the parents of the 12 students. The remaining students of Class 12, too, were barred from taking part in any college activity because they remained party to the event. They will, however, will be allowed to come to class and get their attendance marked. College principal Carlyle McFarland has requested Martinians worldwide to publicize this step taken by the college on social media.

“It is on social media that we learnt of this disgrace. It is on social media that this must be countered…,” reads the principal’s comment on facebook.