Chennai: More than 12,000 schools in Tamil Nadu had a state-wide discussion with the stakeholders on reopening of schools for Classes IX to XII, according to a senior official from the School Education Department. The opinion was divided among the stakeholders with few suggesting partial reopening while others were against it.
“The parents are so divided on the issue that I think the consultation is going to make it harder for us to make a decision,” the official was quoted as saying by The New Indian Express.
The feedback from parents ranged from few urging the reopening of schools while some feared their children might permanently drop out of education. Some of them even asking the state government to compensate them with ‘5 crore in the extreme case of their wards’ death due to the pandemic, post reopening, the paper reported.
Parents who could afford gadgets are against sending their children to school. “Most of them want us to conduct practicals, tests and doubt clearing sessions,” P Vijayalakshmi, principal of Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Virugambakkam, was quoted by the daily.
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