Finally, chalk and board replaces screens in primary classes

For many students, Monday was the first time they were seeing their schools

On Monday, a Class I student at B.E.T. Convent, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, initially refused to go into her classroom, saying it looked different from how it did on her computer screen.

Her teacher intervened, showed her classmates, and said that she was free to sit anywhere in the room. It was only then that she was persuaded to go into the brick-and-mortar classroom.

After months of logging onto online classes and seeing their teachers and classmates virtually, students bid adieu to their computers and mobiles and stepped onto the school campuses, many for the first time, on Monday as Classes I to V reopened.