Thiruvananthapuram: Authorities of the Government Medical College, Thiruvanathanpuram, have assured college union officials that a section of teachers will not be allowed to carry out their threat not to evaluate the sessional examination answer sheets of those students whose parents did not attend a meeting of the parent teacher association (PTA) that discussed alleged gender discrimination in the college.
An office-bearer of the college union told DC that the union was forced to take up the matter after a section of teachers held out the threat. The PTA meeting was called to discuss the complaints by first year MBBS students who liked the posts of a post-graduate student who wrote against the attitude of teachers who opposed boys and girl students sitting side by side. The issues including the shaming of first-year students who liked posts of the post-graduate student and that of the mother of a student who liked the post was made to cry at the PTA meeting would be taken up later with the principal, who is on leave now, said the office-bearer.
Meanwhile, it is reliably learnt that a section of the teachers had verbally asked the post-graduate student who wrote the posts against gender segregation to meet director of medical education (DME) Remla Beevi and explain the reasons for making such a post. However, the student is reliably learnt to have told them that she would not heed verbal orders and that the college authorities should officially instruct her if they wanted her to give the DME a reply.
