School reopening update: Hybrid learning is hindrance to quality education, says NPSC

School reopening update: The National Progressive Schools' Conference (NPSC), an organisation that runs 120 private schools in Delhi, has written to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal requesting to reopen schools unconditionally and getting away with hybrid learning.

Hybrid learning in schools is becoming a cause of hindrance to quality education. The National Progressive Schools' Conference (NPSC) has written a letter to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal requesting unconditional reopening of schools at the earliest. NPSC is an organization that runs 120 private schools in Delhi.

"The Covid contagion has drastically impacted students' skills and competencies in writing due to long period of school closure. Reading and writing are foundational skills in primary years of learning which, sadly, our students have been deprived of for the last two years. The need of the hour is to provide maximum opportunities for holistic development and school is the ideal place to do this," Sudha Acharya, NPSC Chairperson, said in the letter.

"The choice of catering to both online mode and normal school is not only a hindrance to delivering quality education but has also overburdened the teaching fraternity. This is somehow compromising with our vision of making education inclusive, leaving no one behind," she added.

Acharya, who is also principal of the ITL Public School, Dwarka, further said, "We humbly request you to kindly provide unconditional reopening of schools for complete learning remediation.

Once children return to school, we can track in detail the progress as well as the uniqueness of each learner in the cognitive, affective, socio-emotional, and psychomotor domains".