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Home / West-bengal / Calcutta / ISC and CBSE schools reach out and try to help students beat fear of results, college admissions ISC and CBSE schools reach out and try to help students beat fear of results, college admissions The teachers are informally reaching out to pupils and counselling them following the cancellation of the Class XII board examinations
Several ISC and CBSE schools are holding meetings with students of the outgoing Class XII batch to address their concerns and fears about results, college admissions and other such issues.
In some schools teachers are informally reaching out to students and counselling them following the cancellation of the Class XII board examinations by both the ICSE council and CBSE.
Schools are flooded with queries from parents and students on whether CBSE and ICSE board exams will be held on schedule as Covid-19 cases are rising across the country.
The CBSE Classes X and XII, ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) theory papers are scheduled to start on May 4.
Several school heads said the preparation for the exams was on across schools but there was an “increasing uneasiness” among the students and teachers.
For both ICSE and ISC exams, admit cards have been distributed, answer sheets have reached schools and invigilation rosters across schools are ready. Question papers usually come 10 days before the start of the exam, at least two principals said.
Schools are organising training sessions for security guards and those involved in housekeeping, telling them to be “strict with the students” about rules and to follow the protocols themselves as a precaution against Covid-19.
The staff members are being told to regularly clean door knobs and taps after every use, keep an eye on whether everyone is wearing a mask properly and not allow parents on the campus when students arrive or leave.
The training started in most places after the government had last week announced that schools could reopen for students of Classes IX to XII from February 12.
“Many of the security personnel have been here for some time and they tend to be soft with children. But from now they will have to be very strict and merciless in following the protocols. For example they cannot allow any child on the campus without a mask,”
On a deserted school campus, the clatter of the keyboards and the ringing of phones is constant in one room.
Welcome to the accounts office, the most busy place in the school in the last few months.
The mailbox is full, the phone calls are incessant and the personnel in the school accounts office are buried in calculations.
One template that could be followed for all students is no longer effective and the accounts offices across schools are doing calculations specific to individual requests.
Questions from parents range from how much they have to pay if they opt for waiver in the last two quarters, or how much they need to pay if they want the fees adjusted for the previous months where they have paid 100 per cent, or how much they have to pay if they opt for instalments.