Goa schools to declare results through messaging apps

TNN | Updated: Apr 28, 2020, 07:25 IST

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PANAJI: For state schools, the academic year ends on April 30 and with the lockdown still in force, institutes will be informing students of their final results through electronic means. Over a hundred institutes in the state had already introduced a school management app, using which the results will be conveyed to the parents.
“We will inform the parents of the results through the school management app. The actual report card will be handed over to parents later, depending on when the lockdown is lifted. The certificates and trophies will be handed over to students once the new academic year begins,” said headmistress of the Cujira-based Rosary High School, Sarita Carvalho.
While most schools would, under normal circumstances, summon parents to collect the final report card in person, many rural institutes used to also send the card through the postal service. But most institutes will not be relying on the postal service now to deliver the card this year, as they feel it may turn out to be unreliable during the restrictions imposed because of the lockdown.
The Goa Headmaster’s Association has told schools not to call parents to the institute as the directorate of education circular states that parents, students or visitors should not be encouraged to visit institutes during the lockdown.
Students upto Class VIII will be promoted directly to the higher class, as has been decided by the directorate of education. “Now, it is only the question of informing Class IX and XI students whether they have passed or failed. Most teachers already have WhatsApp groups of their classes. We have told them to inform students through these groups. Or teachers at least have the phone numbers of the parents whom they can the results,” said association member Vithoba Dessai.