KOLKATA: Parents of Class X students at Ashoke Hall were called by the school administration on Wednesday to clear their doubts about campus re-opening. Similar sessions were held in other schools last week and many are due to happen so that parents’ anxieties are dealt with properly.
While most parents are reportedly keen on sending their children back to campus, they are at the same time, anxious about the kids’ safety and are eager to find out the steps taken by schools. All CNI schools have been given a written instruction by Bishop Paritosh Canning that they must sanitize the premises and send him details by February 9 before he gives the nod for reopening.
Colleges and universities would be doing their best to conform to all Covid norms. Students, too, should cooperate and follow every guideline. The gradual decrease of cases has given us an opportunity. Let us make the best of it.
Parents of Class XII students at Vivekananda Mission School, Joka, have met the principal to see the arrangements. “They are happy with what they saw. I will meet parents of Class X students next. I am trying to quell all fears,” said principal Sharmishtha Banerjee. Loreto House was also going to meet parents of students of classes X and XII on Saturday, said principal Aruna Gomes. Head of Ram Mohan Mission School Sujoy Biswas is also meeting parents in batches. “It is not just about taking consent mechanically. It is a relationship that we have forged with the parents,” Biswas said.
Ashwini Mishra, parent of a Class X student at Ashoke Hall, said he was feeling nervous. “Yes, she is a board-year student but I am still not convinced about how safe the situation is. I might take some time to decide,” he said.
Despite their anxiety, some parents, however, said that for board-year children, lab work was important and they would send their wards to school. “Doubt-clearing sessions and writing pen-and-paper pre-board exams that my son’s school is arranging after the re-opening are important. So I will send my son,” said Sudeshna Mitra, parent of a Class X student at La Martiniere for Boys.
Chandan Dey, who runs a coaching institute near Narendrapur and whose son is in Class X at Lions Vidyamamdir, said he had been debating whether to send his son to school or not, especially because his pre-boards were over and the school would hold doubts-clearing sessions. “There are still a few days left. I will see the school SOP before sending him,” he said.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/campus-return-parents-anxious-but-keen/articleshow/80675574.cms
