HYDERABAD: Five lakh class X students and around 10 lakh Intermediate students will be appearing for SSC and Board of Intermediate Education examinations this year. The school managements, meanwhile, have welcomed the move. They said that soon after opening schools for high school students, the government should reopen schools for nursery to class 8 students.
Parents said the CM should take a decision on school fee relief as the students have lost more than half of the academic year due to the pandemic. Student organisations demanded that all the students be vaccinated for Covid-19 before the schools and colleges are reopened. “Several states have seen a spike in Covid-19 cases after they had reopened. The government should first vaccinate all students to ensure safety of students instead of risking their lives,” said K Anand, general secretary, PDSU.
After closing down educational institutions indefinitely in March 2020, online classes were launched by the managements of private educational institutions from June 2020, followed by digital classes by the state government in September.
However, parents and students complained that online classes were ineffective and that students were unable to understand or concentrate during the online classes. Off late, demands and representations from private school managements and parents to reopen the educational institutions have been growing.