NAGPUR: State Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad held a series of review meetings with officials last week, and a request to reopen primary schools in rural areas was reiterated by participants.
Appropriate resources in the education department, school teachers local bodies in rural areas said that parents in the villages are interested in sending their children back to school.
So far, only the V-XII Std allowed to physical classes in rural areas.
In urban areas, Std VIII-XII have been allowed.
Safe! You have successfully thrown voteLogin you to see resultGaikwad tweeted that some zilla Parishad (ZP) CEO who attended the review meeting prompted him to consider the reopening of primary schools.
Minister assured them that he would take issue with the chief minister’s office.
In Vidarbha, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts teachers have pushed to reopen the elementary school since the beginning of the academic session.
A school teacher ZP in Bhamragarh taluka of Gadchiroli said, “These children also spend all their days together in the village.
Our teachers visit villages and conduct ‘home study’ sessions because we could not keep these children away from education ecosystem.
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Another teacher, who visits the village to study sessions at the house, saying, “I do not see the logic of keeping the elementary school is closed now.
They had sat together in the frontyard someone when I went there to conduct this study session.
All of this can be done inside the school as well; What is the difference? The state government does not need to extend the decision and harming students’ future.
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In September, TOI had reported how even Unicef warns of ‘catastrophic generation’ if schools continue to remain closed.
A teacher in Chandrapur ZP, where most students come from tribal communities, said, “People in Mumbai who made this decision should look at the environment of our children live in.
The majority of the parents of these children have only secondary levels, while some of the children have parents who are illiterate.
Academic impetus is not there, and the longer the children stayed away from school, the more likely they are to break up.
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Sources in the education department said that the reopening of the main part is not possible before Diwali, as the authorities will first check whether the leads festive season surge in the number of cases.
Rural areas encourage to reopen elementary school
