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Teachers, students pay tearful homage to slain teacher
Posted on: 14/Feb/2012 5:27:37 AM
Teachers and students of St Mary’s Anglo- Indian Higher Secondary School on Monday paid a tearful homage to its teacher R Uma Maheswari (40), who was stabbed to death inside the classroom by her student on February nine.
The management of the school, which reopened after it was closed following the murder, organised a condolence meeting to pay homage to the slain teacher, who had been teaching Hindi and Mathematics for close to a decade in the school, located at Armenian street in Parry’s corner.
School Principal C P Mathew presided over the meeting, which was attended among others by Chennai Chief Education Officer Kuppusamy, Parents-Teachers
Association President Kishore, Ravishankar, husband of the deceased teacher
and her two daughters Sangeetha and Janani.
After the condolence meeting, the Management organised a counseling session for
the teachers before declaring a holiday for the school. Normal classes would resume after a counseling session for the students tomorrow to be organised by the school management.
More than 1500 students observed two minutes silence as a mark of respect to the late teacher and paid floral tributes to the portrait of Maheswari, kept at the Auditorium. The student’s was moved to tears as they lined up to pay homage to the teacher, offering fl oral tributes.
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