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Wednesday 17 June 2020

MODEL SOPs- SCHOOLS OPEN IN JULY/AUGUST WITH MODEL SOPs WILL SEE NO STUDENTS-fusionstories


Ministry of education had an important meeting on 15th June, 2020 regarding the school reopening updates during coronavirus pandemic school lockdown. Federal Minister of education Shafqat Mehmood chaired the meeting. According to reports, the members discussed the “model SOPs “for schools to reopen from mid-July.



MODEL SOPs

 “Model SOP” school reopen program will be implemented in Federal Capital Islamabad in first phase and after observing the results, the model SOP program will extend to all cities. Anyhow the meeting members agreed to observe the pandemic situation on daily basis and agreed that the situation to open the schools right now is not fair.
PRIVATE SCHOOL NOTICES PARENTS ABOUT REOPENING OF SCHOOLS FROM 15TH JULY, 2020

After the meeting of Education minister, many schools have sent messages and notices to teachers regarding the reopening of schools from 15th July. Private schools are assuring the parents regarding the safety and sanitizing measures if schools reopen from July, 15. Private school association is continuously bumping the government to let them open the schools under prescribed SOPs.

PRIVATE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, KASHIF MIRZA
  
According to private school association head, Kashif Mirza, who was talking to SAMAA TV morning show, on 17th June, that 99% of school are closed because of not collecting fees for more than three months as government forcefully closed all administrative office of small private schools while lockdown which cut the connection of school and parents. Only 1% of schools, who take fees through banks could collect money and are giving classes online.  A large number of students don’t have access to laptops, internet and online classes drama and no one talk about that 99% students. Government’s Taleemghar program is just another failed program which is not facilitating the students at home,” Kashif Mirza stressed his points.

‘It’s a great educational loss of students to keep them out of school for long in a country, where already 2.5 crore children are out of school. He stressed to reopen the schools from mid-July under proper SOPs,’ he continued. 

SCHOOLS WILL NOT SEE STUDENTS

On the other side, parents have strongly rejected any possibility of sending their children to schools in such high risk time after getting the notices. 'It's insane to send these notices when corona cases are rising day by day. It's a trick of schools to collect fees from parents,' many parents responded.

The rising corona cases, revised smart lockdown in big cities of Pakistan along with severe hot weather elucidates that the possibility of school reopening from 15th July is very low, but still government is observing and deciding on daily situation of pandemic in country. 

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