Students of a private school in Hyderabad protested in front of their school on Saturday, alleging long study hours which they said resulted in stress and lack of sleep. The students at Gowtham Model School said they had to attend classes from as early as 6:30 am and stay back till 7:30 in the evening. With the burden of tuitions and homework, students said, they ended up going to bed after midnight.
”We don’t even get enough sleep hours, forget play hours,” said one of the protesting students. “We want justice,” shouted at least 50 students from classes 7 to 10 as they protested at the school’s entrance.
The children approached a non-governmental organization that works for child rights, asking for help to escape their stressful routine.
”We demand action against the school. Parents are also pushing the students. They are getting hardly any sleep after studying 13 and half hours and again parents are sending them to tuitions and at tuition centres masters are not allowing them to do homework and again it is taking two hours to complete homework and sleeping at twelve in the midnight and waking up before 5 am every day,” child rights activist Achyuta Rao said
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