Pune: almost 15 months from school has created a new longing to be in classrooms for survey respondents throughout the state.
About 81% of the total 6.9 lakh respondents wanted a school to reopen offline education, a three-day survey conducted by the State Education and Education Training Council of Maharashtra.
The online survey concluded on Monday and was observed that the majority of respondents in PMS IX and X wanted school to reopen while only about 3% of respondents who want the nursery class to be physically opened.
District Pune has maximum respondents participating in this survey.
Government teachers argue that the reopening of schools in rural areas will be easier than urban areas.
The Department of School Education has issued a guideline for the start of the class from STD VIII to XII in the first phase in Covid 19 free rural areas in the academic year 2021-22 from July 15, 2021.
Dinkar Temkar, Director of MSCERT, said that parents also asked about starting other classes , encourage the Ministry of Education to start a survey for all students, parents and teachers throughout the state.
At the end of the last day, a total of 6.9 Lakh respondents participated in the survey and register their voices to open or reopen the school.
Since March 2020, schools have been closed and reopened in rural areas in November and December last year.
Respondents are categories in five parts of the nursery to class XII and the highest sound to support schools is provided for class IX and X is an important year.
Temkar said, “We also want to examine sentiment regarding the reopening of schools in rural areas, urban and semi-urban separately so we add that category and receive a very good response to it.” Since the first day of the survey, voting has become a big majority to reopen school and remain constant to the end, Temkar added.