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Permalink Reply by Dr Juhi on March 23, 2022 at 7:46am

Hi Aditya, Being a doctor I can understand your concern.

While I understand the protocol but I believe that as parents teaching hygiene starts at home, after all families are going on vacation, playing Holi, attending weddings without vaccine.The two year loss specially in formative years will take time.

DDMA has given go ahead and it is in more of school interest make school children follow protocols.

If they remain closed, then they won't be getting the fees for which they are fighting in court.

Pls see DOE order below.

http://www.edudel.nic.in/upload/upload_2021_22/43_dt_05022022.pdf

WHO is itself still exploring and keeps issuing new statements, but I don't blame them as Covid is Enigma.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/health-trends/u-turn-who-c...

No one can predict  the future, but Mental and physical health are equally important components of overall health.

We will cross the bridge when it comes, but right now it is high time to send children to school.

Till when we can make sit children sit at home ?

Hope it helps !!

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on March 23, 2022 at 9:00am

I concur with Dr Juhi .

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Permalink Reply by Rajesh Pruthi on March 26, 2022 at 3:47pm

Well, its an interesting point, and there would always be mixed opinions on it.

Every home has a different situation and it cannot be a “one shoe fits all” scenario.

- for instance, the kids with moderate backgrounds having no or poor access to Internet or smart devices are losing out on crucial learning in their precious years.

- a class 2 or higher kid can perhaps manage an online class; but a nursery or a kg student cannot attend an online class alone. That would require one of the parents to take a half day and sit along with the kid. Is that possible when both are working parents ? Not really.

So for such cases, what are the options available ? either the kid should miss / drop the complete year or we would need a physical offline school to operate.

- We also need to consider the impact on mental health and well-being of teachers as well. They are also overburdened with online plus offline teaching, assignments and exams. The hybrid model is taking a great toll on teachers and staff as well. Their life schedule is also getting disturbed by taking double the classes to ensure that online as well as offline students are not missing out on any classes. If they take a combined class for online and offline, its a logistical nightmare and ends up slightly dissatisfying for the online ones. Everyone (teachers and students) need a break from the screen time.

- And there’s another point - its also about following the law of the land. When the governments felt the lockdown was essential, they implemented it and we all went to online mode. Now they have assessed, and believe we are good to move back to offline mode, then we are complying with it. If the schools were flouting the government norms, then of course we should raise our voice against them. But if they are following the official rules, they are not wrong then. We surely can share our opinions and just like any government decision (central or state), there would always be people in favour or against it.

- And no doubt, it comes with an element of risk. There is no denying that. Will all kids and school staff, practice all covid norms 100% throughout the day ? Not possible ! But we all can wish, they try their best to..

As a beginners check, we should discuss with school and validate that all school staff should be vaccinated, and they in turn should ensure that all parents of all kids are vaccinated. This would indeed go a long way in controlling the potential infection rate.

Therefore, in this scenario, its really important to keep a dialogue open with the schools and teachers to ease out our worries, doubts and anxieties.

Again, its only a personal opinion (nothing right or wrong about it)…

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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on March 26, 2022 at 5:17pm

Rajesh Pruthi

You nailed it .

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Permalink Reply by Aditya Mukerjee on March 23, 2022 at 9:57am

I understand that it's not normal and from your reply I can understand that you also confirm that the pandemic is not over and their could be a new wave. But is it fine to risk the life of small kids just bcoz school is not earning or having profits?? If this so then why are they asking us to sign an undertaking that the school will not be responsible if they get sick or get COVID infection?

Also, neither we went on a vaccation, attended any marriage, nor Holi party.

What about mental and physical well-being? I have two kids - son in 6th grade and daughter in KG. My son, scored 98% and for three gold medals in SOF Olympiad exams last year. They both do yoga and excercise for atleast for an hour a day. We all play together in evenings. So I don't think that they are having any mental issues.

Yes, parent has to work hard and the problem is they don't have time these days to spend with their kids or even to play with them.

I am not saying that this is normal or it should be the way of life, but we could atleast wait for another month with these small kids and wait and watch the situation. If everything goes well, we start the physical school from the next sessions.

However, i have written a mail to the principal and we are not in favour of sending our kids to school now since they have not even being vaccinated.

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