Mumbai: More than three quarters of parents throughout the country indicate that they support schools shaken in surveys in all states that have almost 2.5 lakh respondents.
Highlighting digital gaps, parents in rural areas and urban areas are different proportionally on the question whether it is time to return to physical classrooms.
While 88% of parents in villages supporting the school continuing the right class, the appropriate proportion in the city is 78%.
The result is part of an online survey by the State Education Research Council and training to assess the willingness of parents to allow children to return to physical classes.
Not surprisingly, parents in rural and semi-urban areas, with poor internet strength and infrastructure, sharper than their city colleagues for school to reopen.
Of the 2.5 lakh parents in all countries participating in the survey, 1,40,424 came from the Rural Maharashtra, 1,00,727 from the city and the rest of the semi-urban area.
Apart from the widening learning gap, online-specific class has produced a higher level of school dropout, especially girls, increasing child labor in accordance and causing mental health problems, especially in villages.
Rural students suffer higher learning losses due to poor internet connectivity.
The reopening of the school will be decided by the seven member committees established in the villages that have been free of Covid for a month.
Along with maintaining the Covid protocol in its place, parental permission is a must to start a physical school.
Classes every day may not exceed four hours and only the main subjects must be taught.
Each class should not have more than 20 students and the presence is not mandatory.
Permission will be for class VIII-XII.
Although surveys are limited to find out whether parents are willing to send their children to school, fear of the third wave continues.
Parents and teachers told TOI that all teaching staff and non-teaching must be vaccinated before reopening the school.
In rural areas, parents and teachers want school to be reopened for all classes.
In Mumbai, all schools have been online since last year.
While some schools can be reopened from July 15 in rural areas, decisions regarding the initial degree of college offline still have to be taken by the state.
Higher Education Minister Uday Samant said last week that universities could not start at least a month.