Mumbai: Even when the school waits to welcome students from Monday, parents seem to be reluctant to send their children, still prefer virtual classrooms for now.
Only 11% of parents in online surveys throughout the country responded positively to send their children to physical schools in the near future.
While physical schools began to reopen in October, it was only in December that the presence of students rose to more than 90%, especially in higher classes.
The school must turn off the offline class for 1-9 and 11 standards due to increased omicron cases.
On Thursday, the state is allowed to restart all classes.
Localcirles, a community social media platform, reaches 4,976 parents throughout Tier 1, 2, 3 cities in all 36 districts.
Online surveys found 62% of parents did not want to risk sending children to physical schools.
“Parents want test levels to drop to 5% or lower before sending children to physical schools,” said Chair and founder of Sachin Taparia.
Parental approval is mandatory for the physical presence of students at school.
About 67% of participants in the survey are men.
Level 1 city saw a 44% participation, followed by 31% of Tier 2 and 25% of the Tier 3, 4 and rural levels.
More than 16% of parents have sent their children to physical schools.
These are parents of grade 10 and 12 students who are allowed to attend classes in hybrid mode, even though infection increases.
While 11% of parents seem to be sure to send children to school starting Monday, the same number is confused about whether to send their environment for offline lessons.
Parents surveyed are worried about the contagious nature of the Omicron variant and hope the maximum students will be vaccinated.
Schools in Mumbai and Thane will be offline from Monday.
In Palghar district, reopening has been allowed only for class 8-12 from January 27.
At Pune, reopened by a week.
The decision about the reopening of physical and university universities is also expected soon.