After a seven-month hiatus due to the pandemic, the state government had allowed reopening of schools for classes 9 to 12 from October 19, District Inspector Of Schools (DIOS) Neeraj Kumar Pandey said.
Private schools in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar are finding it difficult to get students of Classes 9 to 12 back to classrooms as parents continue to feel unsafe to send their children for physical classes due to the coronavirus outbreak. Private schools recorded a mere 14 per cent attendance of students on Tuesday, while government and aided schools clocked 39 per cent in Noida and Greater Noida, according to government officials.
After a seven-month hiatus due to the pandemic, the state government had allowed reopening of schools for classes 9 to 12 from October 19, District Inspector Of Schools (DIOS) Neeraj Kumar Pandey said.
"Online classes are fine but they do not have the gravity of a physical classroom. Once the time passes, it won't be possible to recover the academic loss,” Pandey told PTI, adding that his concern was chiefly for students in Class 12 who would be facing qualifying examinations after school to get into colleges.
He said more awareness and confidence-building measures are required between private schools and parents and suggested that students could be called for at least two-three days and engaged in laboratory work. He also added that the rule for reducing the number of students in a class would provide an ideal student-teacher ratio, calling on parents to send their wards to schools again.
"I have inspected schools and found their preparations top class. They are well equipped and prepared for social distancing measures, and regularly sanitising their premises as per guidelines,” the higher school education officer said.
There are 153 schools in the district -- 53 of them government and government-aided while the remaining self-financed -- according to officials.
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