West Bengal: HIV Negative child of a +ve Father thrown out of the school.

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum,

One of our member (Bengal Network for PLWHA) from Midnapur district is facing

problem with his Child's education. His wife and his child both are not HIV

Positive. His three year old baby boy was studying in KG 1. Because of father's

HIV Positive status that child has thorn out from the school.

The story was like that, after knowing the status of the kid’s father, the

school authority asked the HIV report from that family.

They gave it to them. It was clearly mentioned that the child is HIV non

reactive. But the authority did not bother on it. At the time of submission the

report they refund the money what give on the admission time for admission and

told them we will not allow him in this school.

They requested them to allow the child to study but the school authoriteis were

stuck on their decision.

Lastly they informed TO BNP+. We from our network conacted the media.

They covered the stody. And we informed our WBSACS P.D also about this incident.

We are waiting for the positive response from our P.D. We know we will get it

from our P.D.

We also informed local authority. We are waiting the right judgment from them.

Can you suggest us any other way to solve this problem?

Because there is no room to negotiate. The school authority is not ready to

listen to us. We would like to know another way to solve this problem because

it is not the problem for any individual but it the major problem of a society.

Regards,

Tarit.

Tarit Chakraborty (PresidentBNP+)

Regional Coordinatore INP+(Eastern region)

63A/2, Hori Ghosh Street,

Kolkata-700006,

email: bnpplus_05@...

personal e-mail: tarit_chakraborty2004@...

Mobile number:- 09836258928

[Guest guest]

Dear Tarit,

If there is no problem in disclosing the name of the village, block,

district (paschim or purva Medinipur) and the name of the school along with

phone numbers of the School. Is it a Government or private school?

Have you tried the talking to the district party office as CPM holds sway on

both paschim and purva Medinipur? If yes, please share the details and with

whom did you or BNP+ get in touch?

If you could give me the details I could explore some ways to resolve this issue

and try to ensure that the child gets admissions in school.

With warm regards.

SUMAN JANA

+91 9335277257

e-mail: janasuman@...

[Guest guest]

Re: West Bengal: HIV Negative child of a +ve Father thrown out of the school.

Hello everybody,

It has been VERY CLEARLY stated in the mail in the last line that it is the

problem of the society and not the individual.

So we need to approach this issue in a better way. After a struggle, if the same

school gives admission, neither the child will feel comfortable (fortunately

here the child is very very young) nor the parents will feel good/happy about

it. Everyone of us would like to be in a place where we're being accepted (in

alll walks of life.

I'm sure there will be ATLEAST one school where they will accept the child to be

their student. We can take efforts to IDENTIFY the school and help the child to

have her education. Society is nothing but we individuals.

We need to take a turn if there's a block in a road in order to reach the place

where we need to go. Removing the block needs time, manpower,etc depending on

the magnitude of the block. It can be done by an individual at times but not

always

Bridgitte Akila

e-mail <bridgitte_akila@...>