Section 12(2) in Rules for the Grant of Recognition and Aid to Elementary Schools
(2)In elementary schools with standards above Standard V, the headmaster or headmistress and the teachers in charge of Standards VI to VIII, should ordinarily hold trained teacher's certificates of the secondary grade.In a complete higher elementary school which has four or more sections in Standards VI to VIII a Pandit possessing the qualifications prescribed in rule 13, Tamil Nadu Educational Rules, may, at the option of the management, be appointed in the place of one of the secondary grade teachers:Provided that the Pandit is assigned all the language work of the higher elementary standards and where necessary one or more of the lower standards also and that the secondary grade teacher if any, of the lower standard concerned, is given some work in the higher elementary standards.
