The government has imposed a prohibition on keeping primary school students in queues in attending reception programmes.
The primary and mass education ministry issued a circular regarding the matter on Monday.
The government will take legal action against the headmaster and the managing committee of the school if it notices the violation of the order.
School students were kept standing on the street to welcome local MPs and ministers in various parts of the country after the Awami League government assumed office.
The order came following mass criticism over the incidents.
"Primary school children cannot be forced to queue on the roads for giving public representatives warm reception," the circular said.
“It has come to the ministry’s notice that reception has been given to public representatives, eminent citizens and high officials when they go to visit different districts, upazilas and places through the queues of primary schoolchildren on the roads after stopping academic activities in the schools," it added.
It said academic activities of the school would be hampered if the schoolchildren were forced to queue up under the open sky, and it also put pressure on the children’s physical and mental make-up.
“This is, in no way, acceptable,” it said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Monday urged the authorities concerned not to force schoolchildren to queue on the roads to welcome “eminent people”.
He, however said the educational institutions might arrange programmes to honor “honorable guests” on the school premises.
Nahid made the comment while speaking at a programme of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board in its auditorium.