Reopening: Wary Kolkata schools issue Covid-19 guidelines – Times of India

KOLKATA: Don Bosco School Park Circus has made attendance compulsory for students of respective classes who are called to school with only exception for those with Covid or symptoms of flu. South Point High School that will restart with the first term CBSE XII exam has asked parents to fill in a health declaration everyday.
Schools resuming operations either on Tuesday or shortly thereafter have issued Covid guidelines to parents and students.
Don Bosco Park Circus and La Martiniere for Boys have sent notices to parents stating that they are not to be blamed if any child contracts Covid after they start coming to school. Schools say that while all efforts have been made to sanitise the schools and make the return safe for students, a school should not be blamed if a child attending school falls ill.
South Point High School has asked parents of Class XII students to fill in a health declaration on each day of the exam, providing the assurance that the child is not suffering from Covid; that there is no one who is Covid positive in the family; that the child is showing symptoms but has not been tested and that the child does not come from a containment zone.
“In the last three cases, we have prepared an isolation room with an invigilator in PPE gear. We will also conduct random rapid antigen tests on ‘suspect’ examinees randomly, based on which they can get their RT-PCR done and be exempt from Term One. We are doing this for the safety of all,” said school spokesperson Krishna Damani.
At St Augustine’s Day School, Kolkata, the alumni lent its hand to principal Richard Gasper to help in cleaning and sanitisation of the school from 4pm till late on Monday evening.
DPS Ruby Park has decided that classrooms for IX-XII will be shifted to the ground floor so that children do not have to use lifts and monitoring becomes better, said vice-principal Indrani Chattopadhyay. At Sushila Birla Girls School, principal Koeli Dey held several meetings with 70-odd teachers, briefing them about their duties at entry and exit points, corridors, landings of staircases and the floors where CBSE Term-1 exams will be held. A separate set of nine senior teachers will man the exam.