Telangana School Reopening: Institutes welcome move to reopen but parents guarded
Representative Image HYDERABAD: School and college managements welcomed the government’s move to reopen educational institutes, but many parents said they would think twice before sending their kids back to in-person classes.
“Why is the state making a political decision? What is the hurry or need to open for all classes in one go? Did they not learn anything from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which is seeing an increase in positive cases after schools reopened,” asked K Venkata Sainath, joint secretary, Hyderabad Schools Parents Association.
“We feel this move is completely unnecessary. The state should have instead resumed physical classes for classes 8 and above,” he added.
K Praveen Raju, president, Independent Schools Management Association said there is a need to address the loss of learning, the development of a child is far greater than Covid-19 cases.
“It is right to resume physical classes for all students. Let parents decide whether or not to send their children to schools. We, the management, are anyway going to continue to provide both online and offline classes,” Raju said.
College management and teachers too have welcomed the move. During the pandemic, when classes were being held online, many teachers and colleges had raised concerns over poor attendance and grasping of syllabus among students.
“Online classes cannot substitute physical classes. The learning outcome among students, especially those pursuing professional colleges, was dropping. Teachers were overburdened due to the online classes. Adding to the misery, many institutions were not paying or only partially paying their employees. The physical reopening will certainly weed out all these issues,” said A Santhosh Kumar, president of Telangana Schools Technical Colleges Employees Association. Many students, especially those in the first year, are keen to go back to their classrooms.
Managements said that the reopening of institutions will give practical exposure to students which was missing for more than a year.
“Why is the state making a political decision? What is the hurry or need to open for all classes in one go? Did they not learn anything from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which is seeing an increase in positive cases after schools reopened,” asked K Venkata Sainath, joint secretary, Hyderabad Schools Parents Association.
“We feel this move is completely unnecessary. The state should have instead resumed physical classes for classes 8 and above,” he added.
K Praveen Raju, president, Independent Schools Management Association said there is a need to address the loss of learning, the development of a child is far greater than Covid-19 cases.
“It is right to resume physical classes for all students. Let parents decide whether or not to send their children to schools. We, the management, are anyway going to continue to provide both online and offline classes,” Raju said.
College management and teachers too have welcomed the move. During the pandemic, when classes were being held online, many teachers and colleges had raised concerns over poor attendance and grasping of syllabus among students.
“Online classes cannot substitute physical classes. The learning outcome among students, especially those pursuing professional colleges, was dropping. Teachers were overburdened due to the online classes. Adding to the misery, many institutions were not paying or only partially paying their employees. The physical reopening will certainly weed out all these issues,” said A Santhosh Kumar, president of Telangana Schools Technical Colleges Employees Association. Many students, especially those in the first year, are keen to go back to their classrooms.
Managements said that the reopening of institutions will give practical exposure to students which was missing for more than a year.
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