Bengaluru Private School Booked For Shifting Class 10 Students To Govt School To Get 100% Board Exam Pass Rate

Karnataka Police on Thursday registered an FIR against the management and principal of a private school in Bengaluru on charges of shifting Class 10 students to a government school in what is said to be an effort to achieve a 100 per cent board exam pass rate.

Parents allege the decision resulted in their children failing the Board exams since they lost internal assessment marks.

The FIR was filed by the High Grounds police in Bengaluru against Saint Mary's Girls' High School on complaints from parents. At least 10 students have flunked the class 10 Board exams as a result, police added.

Deepika, one of the victims who failed the exam, explained to the press on Thursday that she had attended Saint Mary's from Lower KG.

Deepika also reported that when the school staff gave hall tickets to the students, they told them that their exam centre was somewhere else and asked them to take the test at the government school. When the results came out, she found that her marks card did not mention internal assessment marks.

"We wrote to the school about it, but got no response. When we requested the transfer certificate (TC), the school administration instructed us to pick it up from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) School. We do not understand why this was done. Had I gotten my internal marks, I would have cleared," she stated.

"This has been done to 10 other children from the same school," she said.

The parents, in their complaint, also explained that as the children did not attend classes in the BBMP School, they were declared absent and hence not given marks under internal assessment, which led to their Board exam failure.

The parents also alleged that they had paid fees at Saint Mary's Girls' School, and that the school had moved the children to the government school without their knowledge. They also accused the school of falsely reporting the children as orphans.

The parents said that the students had not been given internal assessment marks by the government school to which they were shifted, and hence they failed in the Board exams.

They also complained that the principal and management admitted the students to the government school without telling them under the false pretence that they are orphans brought from an orphanage.

Police have initiated the probe into the case.

No response has come so far from the school on the accusations against it.