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Schools in city are facing a dilemma whether to conduct final examination online or offline.
Many schools tried to go completly offline especially for students studying in Class IX and XI, but faced backlash from parents.
Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalay conducted a survey by giving parents consent forms to let their wards sit for offline examination. Out of 500 forms submitted, only 60 parents agreed for offline mode of examination.
Damodar Goyal, board member of the school, said, “We tried to convince parent to go for offline mode of examination, but with majority of them wanted online mode. We decided to give both the options to the parents – offline and online. Parents can choose to send their children or not.”
Recently, CBSE issued a circular to schools to conduct classes following Covid protocol for classes IX and XI but they haven’t mentioned specifically name of offline mode.
A private school principal said that this has created confusion among schools as Covid protocol has to be followed only in offline mode.
“We tried to go offline as now everything has opened but parents are still not ready to send their wards to school. CBSE circular didn’t mention any specific mode. Now most schools who wanted things to be normalised have decided to give options to parents between both the modes,” said a school principal.
President of Rajasthan Parents Forum Sunil Yadav said that with indication of third wave of Covid and vaccines still not available to public in large is a major reason that parents are apprehensive in sending their wards to schools. Although senior class students are attending other family functions and not confined to homes, parents are not comfortable in sending them to a place without supervision, he said.
Pratima Sharma, principal of Bal Vidya Vidyashram, said that this is unfortunate that we are no letting our children out of our comfort zone.
“We tried to convince parents but when they have an easy option to study, they don’t want to take any step further. This is not a good sign and parents must try to take a step further to normalcy,” said Sharma.
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