“Fellow Teachers of Accused Samdeep Deny Drug Use in School: Reaction and Response”

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Kollam: Samdeep’s fellow teachers of the school he taught did not use drugs in school. The teachers were reacting to the news that action had been taken against Samdeep. He came to the school till March 31 to teach the children. Samdeep comes to the school where he currently works as a protected teacher from another school.

Samdeep will join the school as a teacher in December 2021. They only know about school hours from 10 am to 4 pm. The teachers say that there is no understanding of what happens after that.

When Samdeep came, there were online classes. Sreekumar, the school management representative, says that his classes were also managed by all the other teachers as he was told that he was having difficulty in taking online classes. He went to school and took classes from last June to March 31 this year. No problems were noticed during that time.

It was known that his mother was suffering from mental health problems for the last few days. Apart from that, there was also the fear of job loss if the number of children in school decreased. Sreekumar said that there was no incident of drunkenness coming to school.

“All of us are shocked to know the current situation. Don’t know what happened. It came to know that there are family problems. But we did not ask about it nor did he say it,” he said.

According to the school headmistress Susan George, Samdeep came to the school to take classes till March 31. She also responded that he was a person who did everything right, including teaching children in school. Samdeep came as a protected teacher from Vilangara UP School to Aryankav School and from there to Nedumpana UP School.