Rising COVID cases among school students keep parents on the edge
The Hindu
Private schools juggle offline-online classes, govt. schools stick to classroom teaching
Fear, misgiving, resignation and bravado is the wide arc of moods among parents and students with scores of children testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus over the past one week in Telangana. On November 28, students at a BC Welfare School in Muthangi tested positive for the virus. On December 2, another batch of students of a BC Welfare School in Indresham, about 25 km from Muthangi, were found positive.
“My daughter had online classes for the past few weeks, but in a parent-teacher meeting recently, the school insisted that exams will be held offline. Now we are not sure whether we should take the risk and let her write the exam,” said the parent of a student who goes to a well known public school in the city.
“Due to Omicron news, parents have stopped sending children to school. It is back to online classes,” said another parent of a class VIII student in Jubilee Hills area.