AHMEDABAD: On Monday, nearly 1,500 city schools will witness a raised volume of teenage chatter on their campuses with class 9 and class 11 students being allowed to attend schools along with their counterparts in class 10 and class 12.
But just 25% of the total class 9 and 11 students have received consent from their parents to attend school, claims Ahmedabad, rural district education officer (DEO) Rakesh Vyas. Tuition classes on the other hand have shown a lukewarm response as class 10 and class 12 students will be busy preparing for preliminary exams by February 15 and there being no point beginning tuitions classes.
Manan Chowksi, president of the progressive school management association, said that there is considerable excitement among class 9 and class 11 students. “But it will be at least two weeks before more parents allow their children to attend school.”
In case of tuition classes, centre head, S K Vijay of Aakash classes says, “We have not received the SOP from the government yet and we may not start from Monday.” Another tuition class operator Rakesh Bothra claims that he is considering sessions from February 28, since many children will be preparing for preliminary exams now. Allen school’s Pankaj Baldi said, “Only 60% of students’ parents have consented. We plan to reduce our class size from 200 in a session to 60 per classroom.”