Yesterday, this paper ran a front-page story on Mount Mary High School in Malwani (no connection to the church) asking students to raise Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 each for the school’s renovation. Students were allegedly taken in batches to the Bandra fair and made to ask for donations there. Meanwhile, parents were not even told that this was happening. They expressed shock and surprise when they learnt what their children were being made to do.

The school had asked the children to raise funds for the school’s renovation and had adopted the tactic of taking the kids to the fair when not all of the students could do so.