Pune: Some schools in the Rural Maharashtra, where Covid cases are low or non-existent, arranged to reopen from Thursday.
These schools, including some in Pune District, will continue graduating 8 to 12 to get started.
Re-opening decisions emerged after a standard operating procedure setting (SOP) for schools by the state government, permission from Gram Panchayats and orientation with parents about sending their children to school.
School representatives say the orientation lives in the safety measures to be adopted.
Velhe-based teacher, Santosh Ghuge said, “We discussed the ins and outs to reopen school during our meeting with education officers, who told us about guidelines to follow.
We then talk to parents about the rules.
We got a positive response from They and hope for a good presence.
“The school to restart today in Villageslast who is free Covid, the Ministry of Education issues a notification that while continuing to promote distance learning, it also works to restart class education in the villages where There are no Covid cases.
Among important guidelines to reopen is that school staff must be vaccinated on priority before the class begins.
Sarpanch from each village will lead the eight member committee to monitor the implementation of Covid safety guidelines at school.
Chief Executive Officer of the Local Zilla Parishad (ZP) will oversee the operation and review the situation regularly.
The Committee will include collectors, principals and health officials.
The school must follow all the SOPs and conduct a timely examination of students on the campus.
Schools are also instructed to monitor the right implementation of social distance norms, including allowing only 15-20 students per class.
ZP Senior School Teacher Arvind Jagtap said, “All of our staff members have been fully vaccinated.
We are ready to reopen our school from Thursday and have received permission from Gram Panchayat.” Sushma Ghuge from Indapur Taluka, the mother of grade 10 students, ” Because this is a crucial year for my daughter, I feel she has to attend a class session rather than taking online lessons.
There are many online learning problems because we only have one cellphone at home.
It becomes difficult to give our daughter phone for 5-6 hours every day .
In addition, classroom teaching is always effective.
“Students in grade 10 Avinash Raut of Maval Taluka said,” My school has told us that they were still awaiting permission from Gram Panchayats to reopen.
But we have been asked to be ready to teach a class and must Can go to school in a week.
I am happy because I have to clean up a lot of doubts that I found in my textbook.
“Head of Exquise Utif Pune ZP Ayush Prasad said, “There are around 1,000 villages in Pune District who can reopen school and the majority of them will start the class from Thursday.
Next week, almost everything will start functioning.
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