TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
MARGAO: Parents of the students from a city-based school have rejected the extended time policy of school hours introduced by the Directorate of Education (DoE) this academic year.
A poll conducted by parents of Loyola HS has indicated that almost 97% of parents are not in favour of the extended school timings. Parent members of the PTA distributed leaflets to all students from Std I to X to gauge the opinion of the parents. The leaflets collected and counted on Saturday by PTA members indicated that on an average 95.82 % of parents were against the extension of school timings.
Trouble has been brewing all over the State from the time the DoE enforced the policy supposedly upon the recommendation of school managements, with parents voicing their resentment against the DoE decision to implement the policy without taking them into consideration.
Loyola was perhaps the first school in the State to undertake such an exercise and Dinar Barros who engineered this strategy, said that it was to organize the parents from all over the State to resolve this issue democratically. “The results were overwhelming, with students from every division from Std I to X saying ‘NO’ to extension in school hours”, he added. A parent Nisser Dias said the parents will present the poll result through a representation to the chief minister Manohar Parrikar who also holds the Education portfolio. “We will urge him to rollback the circular issued by the DoE during his forthcoming visit to Margao next week.”
