Students of the Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School in Jolarpet town blocked the Jolarpet - Tirupattur Main Road on Wednesday demanding that the headmistress of the school be retained and that special coaching for higher classes be resumed.
The police said that around 7.30 a.m. a large number of students, mostly from X, XI and XII classes, gathered in front of the school. They blocked the road by sitting on the carriageway of the stretch and demanded resumption of special classes, which were conducted for an hour in the morning and evening hours.
A team of revenue officials and Jolarpet police, led by K. Sivaprakasam, tahsildar (Tirupattur), reached the spot. By that time, the teachers, including the headmistress of the school, also came to the school and asked the students to get back to the campus.
