New Delhi. New academic session is going to start in more than 28 hundred schools of Delhi from 1st April. Apart from Delhi, preparations have been made to start new academic sessions in almost all the states across the country. Meanwhile, in most states across the country including Delhi, students studying in first to eighth grade will not be able to attend school even at the beginning of the new semester. The Delhi government has clarified that schools will not be opened for small classes at the moment amid growing corona infections once again. Apart from Delhi, several other states including Punjab, Puducherry, Gujarat, Himachal, Chandigarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan have also decided to close schools for small classes at present.
Many of these states are where schools were opened earlier but now schools have been closed to varying time limits, given the situation in Corona.
Many well-known schools in Delhi, such as Air Force Bal Bharti, Delhi Public School, Green Field School, Arvachin, among others, have issued special circulars to parents. According to the circular issued by these schools, in the next academic session, children’s education will go online. Students will study further from home. The Government of Delhi and the management of all these private schools are not in a position to tell when the regular classes can be started.
Ashok Aggarwal, president of the All India Parents Association and a member of the Delhi University Executive Council, told IANS, “Given the Corona transition, the option of online education is a compulsion.” But where possible students should be provided the opportunity to come to school. According to an estimate, the school dropout rate of students has increased by 20 percent due to the school being closed. If the school is still closed, the dropout rate of students will increase further.
Ashok Aggarwal said, “Where it is not possible to open schools due to corona, online mediums need to be further strengthened. Simultaneously, dialogue should be maintained at other levels between the school and the students.
At the same time, such parents are also worried that they were transferred from one state to another last year and could not get their children enrolled in school.
Puran Chandra, who came to Delhi from Nainital, told IANS, Last year, we came to Delhi from Nainital in the second week of March. My son Manish falls in the third grade. Manish could not get admission due to the lockdown. After staying at home for the whole year, he is no longer getting admission in fourth grade. This problem has become more serious due to non-opening of schools. This is the situation of thousands of parents and their children who have been transferred like Puran Chandra.
On the other hand, Delhi Parents Association says that it is a right decision not to open the school given the current situation in Corona, but this decision should also apply to the students of class 9th and 11th.
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