New Delhi: From small tots to junior wing students, children in Delhi were eager to return to school on Monday after a prolonged closing of more than 19 months considering the Covid-19 pandemic.
While some schools reopened with 50 percent seating capacity on Monday, the majority of private schools have delayed the reopening to post Diwali.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see a class student, thermal scanning, and volunteers guiding staggering entries and out for students is a common sight in schools opened on Monday.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia visited Rajkiya Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Vinod Nagar East Delhi and interacted with students.
“Finally !! It’s time to go back to school.
Today children have returned to school after almost one and a half years.
It was an emotional movement to see students laugh and enjoy in the classroom.
We welcome all students back to school,” Sisodia Tweeted.
In the main wing of the school, Sisodia spent time with children where a student turned to a doctor for him while the Minister of Education played a patient.
“Meet this special doctor today in the school class room.
Full body inspection, injection, prescription drugs, and instructions to ‘avoid icecream’ …
God …
I lost this …,” Sisodia tweeted while sharing a few Images that show students check him using a toy stethoscope.
In a high school of government, Lajpat Nagar, a grade 8 student said, “I like to attend school regularly for the next.
It feels fun to return after almost two years.”
“Online classes are clearly useful but during physical classes, we can always remove our doubts at that time and there.
Because of network problems, sometimes, we don’t get a clear picture of what’s happening and it’s quite tiring to keep looking on the screen Long time, “said the student.
Other students who were both eager to join the school said, “Even during Covid, our teachers do all the efforts to take our class sincerely and give us individual attention too.
We can approach them individually to clean our doubts.”
“Even though they are available, we still feel something is missing – pleasure to meet our friends and come to school.
I hope the classes are not affected because of the possibility of the third wave”.
Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has announced last week that schools will be reopened for all classes from November 1, although teaching and learning will continue in blended mode.
DDMA also said that the school had to ensure that there were no more than 50 percent of the attendance in the class at one point in time and no students were forced to attend the physical class.
After a real increase in the Covid-19 situation in the national capital, the Delhi government has announced the reopening of schools for grade 9 to 12, colleges and training institutions from September 1.
However, this was the first time after March 2020 that schools in Delhi were reopened for class up to 8.
Allows only 50 percent of students per class, mandatory thermal screening, staggered lunch breaks, alternative seating arrangements and avoiding routine guest visits is among the guidelines announced by DDMA for the reopening of the school.
DDMA said students, teachers and non-teaching staff living in the Covid Detention Zone would not be allowed to come to schools and colleges.
It also said the areas used for activities such as the distribution of rations and vaccination must be separated from the area to be used for academic activities.