Reconsider decision to suspend courses, APPSA urges Minister
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The Andhra Pradesh Private Schools Association (APPSA) has appealed to Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh to rethink the federal government’s decision to suspend faculty for college kids of courses I to IX, and as an alternative enable them to perform after taking all mandatory COVID-19 precautions.
In a letter to the Education Minister on Wednesday, APPSA State chairman K.S.N. Murthy mentioned that if the colleges are stored closed, it might end in a drop in literacy price and create unemployment issues sooner or later.
“Students have remained at home, and have become addicted to TV and mobile phones for nearly 10 months, and just when the situation was about to get back to normal, the announcement by the government that there would be no examinations for classes I to IX, and that holidays would be declared, has come as a big blow to private school managements, parents and students,” Mr. Murthy mentioned.
“When classes are not run, the low-budget schools would not be in a position to pay the salaries of their teachers and parents are reluctant to send their children to school in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases,” Mr. Murthy mentioned, interesting to the Minister that managements be allowed to run the colleges on a shift system or on alternate days or cancel the Class X examinations and announce that the educational yr for 2021-22 would start someday in June, relying on the COVID scenario.
The authorities ought to come out with an announcement that examinations shall be carried out for courses I to IX as quickly as the colleges are reopened. This would compel them to research at house for the examinations and never neglect their research. They must also be directed to clear 70% of the charges, he mentioned.
Many of the college managements are below a steep monetary disaster since final yr due to COVID, he mentioned, including that the federal government ought to lengthen a serving to hand to the colleges which are unable to pay rents, taxes and instalments for the loans. As in Telangana, the Government of AP ought to give ₹2,000 and 25 kg rice luggage to academics who’re rendering service to the colleges, he mentioned.
Mr. Murthy mentioned that a number of faculty principals have ended their lives unable to face the monetary pressures up to now one yr.
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