The Andhra Pradesh Private Schools Association (APPSA) has called on Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh to reconsider the government’s decision to suspend the school for grades I through IX students, and instead allow them to function after clearing all required COVID-19 -Have taken precautionary measures.
In a letter to the education minister on Wednesday, APPSA state chairman KSN Murthy said that closing schools would lead to a decline in literacy rates and create unemployment problems in the future.
“The students stayed home and have been addicted to television and cell phones for almost 10 months. Just as the situation was returning to normal, the government announced that there would be no exams for grades I to IX and that the holidays would be declared a blow to the private school administration, parents and students, ”Murthy said.
“If classes don’t take place, the low-budget schools are unable to pay their teachers’ salaries and parents are reluctant to send their children to school amid the rise in COVID-19 cases,” Murthy said said and appealed to the minister that management may run schools in a shift system or on alternate days, or cancel Class X exams, and announced that the academic year for 2021-22 will start sometime in June, depending on the COVID situation will.
The government should announce that exams for grades I through IX will be held as soon as schools reopen. This would force them to study at home for the exams and not neglect their studies. You should also be directed to pay 70% of the fees, he said.
Many of the school administrators have been in a serious financial crisis since last year due to COVID. The government should help schools that are unable to pay rent, taxes, and installments on the loans. As in Telangana, the AP government should provide teachers serving the schools with £ 2,000 worth of rice bags 25 kg, he said.
Mr Murthy said several school principals ended their lives without facing the financial pressures of last year.