<p>Police said students boycotted classes in eight districts including Chennai, Vellore, Tirunelveli and Dindigul districts.<br /><br />Around 1500 DMK workers were taken into custody for staging protests outside schools in the respective districts. A DMK release also said scores of its party workers were held in different districts in connection with the protests.<br /><br />In Coimbatore,workers of DMK, Congress and Periyar Dravida Kazhakam, staged demonstrations in front of various schools in the city, in protest against non-implementation of Uniform System of School Education (USSE). However, there were no reports of students boycotting classes or untoward incidents, police said.<br /><br />The DMK-introduced USSE is caught in a legal tangle following AIADMK government's reluctance to continue with it citing lack of quality.<br /><br />The Supreme court, looking into a case in this regard, had refused to endorse changes made by it in Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education (Amendment) Act, 2011 to stop enforcement of the scheme.<br /><br />The apex court had refused the plea of the Jayalalithaa government to stay a Madras High Court order quashing amendment by it to the Act aimed at scrapping DMK government-approved school course curriculum.<br /><br />DMK chief M Karunanidhi had backed his party's call for today's protest, saying it was a "peaceful" one in accordance with the preachings of his party's founder, the late C N Annadurai.</p>
<p>Police said students boycotted classes in eight districts including Chennai, Vellore, Tirunelveli and Dindigul districts.<br /><br />Around 1500 DMK workers were taken into custody for staging protests outside schools in the respective districts. A DMK release also said scores of its party workers were held in different districts in connection with the protests.<br /><br />In Coimbatore,workers of DMK, Congress and Periyar Dravida Kazhakam, staged demonstrations in front of various schools in the city, in protest against non-implementation of Uniform System of School Education (USSE). However, there were no reports of students boycotting classes or untoward incidents, police said.<br /><br />The DMK-introduced USSE is caught in a legal tangle following AIADMK government's reluctance to continue with it citing lack of quality.<br /><br />The Supreme court, looking into a case in this regard, had refused to endorse changes made by it in Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education (Amendment) Act, 2011 to stop enforcement of the scheme.<br /><br />The apex court had refused the plea of the Jayalalithaa government to stay a Madras High Court order quashing amendment by it to the Act aimed at scrapping DMK government-approved school course curriculum.<br /><br />DMK chief M Karunanidhi had backed his party's call for today's protest, saying it was a "peaceful" one in accordance with the preachings of his party's founder, the late C N Annadurai.</p>