What I feel is, online classes are not bad, but we teachers or even students are not fully prepared for online learning, or teaching. Most of the students take online classes very lightly, some play while online class is going on, and teachers are unaware and parents nowadays are at the offices. They can’t balance both and the children suffer. Online learning I don’t think is a good idea for( kg to 10th) For higher classes it is ok because the mindsets of children from 11th and above are mature to be more serious in online education, For school it should be compulsory offline regular classes. I have a question, if this virus is dangerous, and because of which schools are online but their parents are out, is it not possible for them to carry the virus home? This could lead to children being infected. And then all children play together on the grounds, won’t that spread the virus? What is the government trying to do? Government can’t seem to find any good ideas on this.
– Harish Malvankar, Professional artist, Panjim
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As a parent I want my kids to go back to school taking into consideration the decline in the Covid cases. Offline education is not severely affected by technical issues and provides an excellent opportunity for students to develop a strict schedule and adhere to it. Moreover, offline education also allows teachers to monitor the responses and behaviour of their students and accordingly address them as and when required. However at the same time, we cannot ignore the risk factors. A strict protocol should be asked to the students and the parents as well.. in the pre-Covid era, we have seen parents send their kids to school even if they had a cough and cold. Such negligence can prove a lot hazardous in the pandemic.. these things should be taken into consideration while listing the protocols..
By now even the kids are very familiar with the covid situation and so they can be asked to follow a few rules too. Maybe by time they shall be also used to maintaining it..
– Sangita Hadfadkar, Entrepreneur, Porvorim
Time is the best solution. School should run in a hybrid way. Flexibility and support should be provided to all – parents, kids and teachers too for this. Those who are comfortable with Physical class could attend and those facing issues like medical or otherwise could attend the same class virtually. As the time progresses and the situation is totally under control, full fledged physical classes could be resumed.
– Mrs Teja Gadekar, Company Secretary, Cunchelim
This can be seen in both ways. Physical classes were a benefit for the economically weaker sections as the midday meal would give them food. Also it was an escape route for children from broken families. So the have not’s will prefer offline while the haves online
– Agnes Pinto, Student, Vasco
Since Covid cases were on the rise due to the advent of the third wave, the government took the correct stand of going ahead with online classes. It was necessary as students would have been the victims of the latest wave. Now, the graph is declining and hence I am of the opinion that schools should be opened in a staggered manner. Students have suffered in the last couple of years and another month of balancing in online and offline classes will not have a major effect. Hopefully, thing would be better in the next academic year and we will have full fledged offline classes
– Manish Karapurkar, Parent, Panjim
I think it’s a little too early to begin physical classes. We are two months away from the annual term ending and don’t see the reason for getting into school for the last two months. We should continue the online process and begin the new semester with an offline mode. Our children are still not completely vaccinated and there is still a fear of getting infected and spreading the same unknowingly.
– Menlyn Naronha, Parent, Porvorim
