Summary:
Parents all over the city are putting pressure on schools to step up security; some have even begun regularly visiting their children’s schools to verify this personally. Some schools are now not allowing bus staff into the school premises, and contractors are being warned to get their personnel vetted. Francis Swamy, principal, St.
Mary’s School and St.
Xavier’s School, says, “This is a kind of wake-up call for all the schools.” Fr. A south Mumbai school’s head of transport says that drivers and attendants are being trained not just in how they behave but also to keep an eye on the activity around them. Divya Nayak, mother of an eight-year-old, says that she didn’t send her daughter to a school picnic because of safety worries..