High Court issues notice to school

While allowing all the students of St. Lawrence Convent to attend the educomp classes, Justice Hima Kohli issued a notice to the convent and sought its rationale behind issuing the alleged “arbitrary” order of October 17, refusing some of its students access to the new-age IT-enabled educational tool. Suspending the school’s order, Justice Kohli also issued a notice to Delhi government’s Directorate of Education seeking within four weeks its stand on the school’s diktat involving mid-session raise of fees, allegedly an illegal act.

The Court order came on a plea by a group of school students’ parents, challenging the school’s fiat and asked the school to allow all the students, including those who have not paid the fee, to attend the smart class. Appearing for the parents, counsel Ashok Aggarwal argued the school authorities have divided students as ‘educomp students’ and ‘non-educomp students’ for the “smart classes” and the two categories of students were not allowed to sit together.

Aggarwal said the students were barred from classes despite having paid their regular quarterly tuition fees.