Borewells drying up: Water scarcity has started affecting schools as well. Schools in Bengaluru are struggling to provide water during class hours for hundreds of their students and staff as many of their borewells have dried up.
Many parents have been sending their young children to pre-nursery or play schools as a means to acclimatise them to the school environment, particularly due to the demands of working parents. Anju Kumar, a parent, explained, “Sending kids to preschools has become a necessity for working parents.
Children should be guided in identifying and expressing emotions. Schools and parents should introduce strategies for managing anger and frustration, such as breathing exercises, taking breaks, or using words to express feelings, Shashi Kumar added.
Crash course for kids? Not a bad idea
Crash course for kids? Not a bad idea
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Mar 13, 2021, 06:00 IST
Worried that children will lose a year or be promoted without learning anything,
parents look for
With the academic year coming to an end and
Covid cases rising, kindergarten classes are unlikely to open for the upcoming session. This means that children will miss another precious year, and so, many parents are knocking on the doors of schools to conduct crash courses online.
“My
son studies in LKG. We were waiting for Covid cases to come down for offline classes to resume. But the situation doesn’t look so good. Now, as we have not opted for any online class, we are worried about how my son will move to UKG next year. If he is made to study LKG in 2022, he would lose one year, which is unacceptable. However, on the other hand, if he is promoted to UKG, he would be moving to a
Class act? Not quite
With the state government restarting Vidyagama in a fresh avatar and planning to start
offline classes for Class 10 and IInd PU from January 1, schools are mulling over the measures needed to make this a success. Experts feel that it resuming offline classes so soon would be catastrophic unless the vaccine has significantly reduced
covid caseload.
Many parents are still apprehensive about sending kids to school. Sreeja S, a parent, said, “I am a teacher and I have to go to the campus to teach.
However, as a mother, I feel that it is still not the time to send kids to school, until the vaccine has reduced the number of covid cases. Even if schools reopen, the choice of online learning should be there.”