This is the background story.
CBSE has decided to suspend some staff and asked the principal of a school to apologize to the student who was asked to remove her upper innerwear (UI) during the recent NEET exam. This incident happened at Kannur in Kerala.
While we all feel sorry for the ordeal the student went through before an important exam, I am focusing on the aftermath of the incident..
Why all this hoopla about metal detectors and hooks in straps to jeans buttons to earrings being taboo? I guess it was as a result of some previous incident (2015?) when a while lot of cheating happened. This dress code was put in place in order to prevent such incidents of cheating in exams.
Having decided and communicated to students and parents and to invigilators that certain objects were not allowed inside the exam center (i assume authorities did inform all concerned including students), some students did come wearing objectionable stuff to the exam. What were the invigilators to do? Allow the students inside with metal hooks, buttons and what not? No, they frisked and asked the violators to remove the objectionable items.
The girl in question was frisked by women (not by men). She was asked to remove her UI (Upper Innerwear). Did the invigilators do anything wrong? Perhaps the girl was asked to change to something that didn't have metal or other non allowed stuff. Well most people don't carry extra UI to an exam and I guess the girl didn't have a spare, especially one of the kind that would pass muster.
When CBSE passed this order, did they not envisage such a possibility (re UI)? Were there not any women in the panel?
By taking action on the Kannur school, CBSE has sent a strong message. Stakeholders (Executive agency) will be held responsible for any ugly incident arising out of carrying out its own (Legislative) orders..
United Airlines was in the news recently when it asked some ladies (United Airlines staff traveling as passengers) who were wearing leggings to change their dress because such leggings were in violation of the dress code of the airline. But
Even if the CBSE dress code itself was ill conceived, Instead of taking the blame on itself, CBSE has taken the small people and made them scapegoats. Bravo.
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