The detaining of a boy in Standard VI in a city school, when the Right to Education Act has come into force, has been challenged in the Madras High Court.
In a petition, Ka. Kalaikottuthayam of Virugambakkam has stated that his son Tamil Prabhakarauthayam joined the Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Egmore, in the kindergarten level. He got admission to Standard VI for academic year 2009-10 and was an average student. The family belonged to socially and educationally backward class. He was detained in Standard VI for 2009-10. The petitioner said under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, no child should be held back in any class till the completion of elementary education up to Standard VIII.
