BHOPAL: Despite the schools assuring safety of the students on school campus, poor presence of students in schools proved that online classes continued to be preferred over offline classes.
Parents said that they can’t take risk for their children in such a situation. “I have told the school of my kid to take the fee but I am not sending my child to school till he gets vaccinated. As there is no vaccination of people below 18 years yet, I can’t take the risk,” said Rajeev Batham, father of a class 7 student.
Presence of students remained poor in both government as well as private schools. Most parents outrightly said no to sending their kids to school for campus academics amid talks of third Covid wave. “Fear of the third wave is still there. How can we send our children to school now. Online classes are on and there is no need to send them for offline classes,” said a parent, Adarsh Gupta.
Parents even praised online classes. “Both teachers and students are comfortable in online classes. In such a situation I do not find any reason to send children for offline classes,” said another parent, Ashok Shrivastava.
Schools also admitted that parents are preferring online classes. “Students won’t come in proper strength till online classes are available for them. We have raised the issue several times earlier. Offline classes will be a success only when online classes are closed,” said a school-owner without quoting his name.
