Decision to reopen primary classes in Pune region after December 15 | Pune News – Times of India

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PUNE: Schools in Pune Municipal Corporation and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation areas and the rural parts of Pune district will remain shut till December 15, notifications issued by both civic bodies and the Pune zilla parishad said on Tuesday.
The state education department had given approval for schools to reopen from December 1, but both the corporations have decided to wait before reopening classes physically from Stds I to VII. Classes from Stds VIII onwards will be allowed to function as they are.

The need to contain the possible spread of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus has been stated as the reason for this preventive measure in both notifications which also said that a revised decision on the reopening of schools after December 15 will be taken based on the Covid-19 situation. The same decision will also be applicable to Pune and Khadki cantonment board areas.
Pune’s district collector Rajesh Deshmukh also issued an order on Tuesday evening stating that the rural schools will also not reopen from December 1 and that online education would continue till further orders.
His order said, “All teaching and non-teaching staff will report to school in full capacity. The staff should work on preparing the schools for the reopening with all Covid protocol. The teachers should get fully vaccinated meanwhile so that 100% staff can report to school once the decision to reopen is taken.”
Deshmukh also stated in his notification that residential schools should also be made ready for reopening while the school management committees must sensitise the school transport committees and inform them about the guidelines to be followed during this period.
Many schools in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, especially those affiliated to national education boards, had already decided not to start their schools online in December, instead postponing it to January.
The Association of CISCE Schools in Maharashtra has written to the education department requesting them to let the ICSE schools take a call and open their schools from either December 21 or January 2022. The letter explains that ICSE schools will be conducting semester I board examinations till December 16 and then closing for the Christmas vacation from December 23 onwards.
Markus Deshmukh, spokesperson for The Bishop’s School, said, “The board exams are being held now. We need to ensure that each student maintains a six-foot distance. Hence, more classrooms will be taken up which in turn means more number of teachers will be needed for invigilator duties. Moreover, immediately afterwards our winter vacation start. We have already informed the parents that the schools for Std VIII onwards will start physically from January 6 while the physical classes for Stds I to VII will start in March-April when the next academic year starts. Parents have conveyed this information and they have agreed to the continuation of online classes till then.”
Rohit R, a parent of two girls studying in primary classes in a city-based CBSE school, said they too had received a notification stating that the schools will start for physical classes in January 2022.

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