As celebrations marked the reopening of schools with colourful Praveshanolsavam elsewhere on Thursday, the Baselios Vidyanikethan Senior Secondary School at Vettickal in Mulanthuruthy kept it really subdued.
The decision to shun celebrations was deliberate. For a school which lost five of its students and a teacher hardly eight months away, the wound was still festering to have made a different choice.
A fatal accident claimed those lives when a fun-filled excursion to Ootty turned tragic after the tourist bus carrying 42 students and five teachers of the school rammed a KSRTC bus near Vadakkancherry in Palakkad on the midnight of October 5. Among the deceased students, three were from tenth standard while the other two were in Plus Two.
