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First day of the return of secondary school students to schools but it seems that not everything went smoothly at the schools.
The opening of the new school year at the Petrakis Kyprianou Secondary School in Larnaca took the worst omen as, according to complaints from parents of the school, more than 30 to 35 students were... expelled.
According to President of the Larnaca Parents' Confederation, Kostas Kostas, who spoke to the Cyprus Times, he said that the principal of the high school in question expelled the students because of clothing and haircuts.
"This is the headmaster who last year did not allow the six students to graduate, again because of a haircut. It is the first day and he had to welcome the students in the best possible way, to make them feel that they are going to a welcoming place. Instead he came in sternly and without even making recommendations expelled students for their attire and haircut. Even if he applied the rules then he had to first make a recommendation, a plea and then proceed with expulsions. Students went to high school for the first time and he expelled them."
Mr. Costa, we are told, is going to the school to find out first hand what has happened. "I intend to call an extraordinary meeting of the Larnaca Federation of Parents' Association and my recommendation will be that tomorrow morning all schools, if possible, should abstain in support of the students of the high school in question."
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