Updated On: 13 January, 2023 06:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Dipti Singh
Parents of girl student from Dadar’s Sharadashram International School admit they were late to pay fees owing to a robbery at their home; scared child who was kept alone in class for 2 hours refuses to return to school

Sharadashram International School, Dadar says last year’s fees was also delayed. File pic/Atul Kamble
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly humiliated by Sharadashram Vidyamandir International School in Dadar over non-payment of fees. The Std II student alleged that the teacher did not allow her to appear for an exam and made her sit in a separate room away from her classmates as punishment for over two hours on Wednesday. When her father went to pick her up, he claimed she was forced to wait at the school’s staircase.
This has traumatised her, said her parents and she is now afraid and ashamed of going back to school. The parents have approached the state child rights commission, and education department and complained to the local police station. mid-day is in possession of the complaint letters by the girl’s father. The Sharadashram Vidyamandir trust runs both Sharadashram Vidyamandir where former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar studied, and the Sharadashram Vidyamandir International school.