For the small offence of letting their hair grow longer than the school-approved short crop, as many as 25 kids were subjected to great cruelty by staffers of a Vikhroli school. The school director, physical training (PT) teacher and office assistant chopped off clumps of the boys' hair, in the process also snipping away at the children's self-esteem.

It is shocking that the school deems fit to shame students and assumes that students will learn from such humiliation. The punishment should reinforce the message that rules made for the good of the students.