Call for starting schools’ academic session on August 2
July 27, 2021
The Grand Alliance of Private Schools Association (Gapsa) has demanded that the Sindh School Education & Literacy Department start the new academic session on August 2, in accordance with the decision taken during the last meeting of the department’s steering committee.
In its charter of demands, Gapsa has suggested that the Provincial Task Force on Covid-19 allow reopening schools with 50 per cent attendance. It also called for proper representation of the stakeholders in the task force.
Gapsa claimed that private schools have been strictly complying with the Covid-19 standard operating procedures, and that 95 per cent of the institutions have gotten their teaching and non-teaching staff vaccinated. Schools should therefore be declared safe places, it suggested.