Protest Schooling: Getting primary schoolers to do the dirty work

Administration of a fertiliser factory used over 200 public school children to protest against the district government


Express May 04, 2011

DAUD KHEL:


The administration of a fertiliser factory used over 200 public school children to protest against the district government on their behalf.

A local factory administration had recently been issued a warning for employing children. The factory administration protested against the government on Tuesday by pulling over 200 primary school children out of school. School administration said that several armed men broke into the school and demanded that the children be released for a ‘protest’. “I was teaching a class when four men broke in and demanded that I let my class leave with them. Labourer Ameenullah Khan said he had worked at the fertiliser factory for several years and had not been paid last months salary. “Now they think they can just pull our kids out of school for a protest,” he said.  District administration objected to the use of children in a rally and DO Haider Salman said “This is absurd. These children ought to be in school.”




Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2011.

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