In-person classes at primary educational institutions, including schools and kindergartens, across the Bangladesh resumed on Wednesday after over a month.
The students of Class I to Class V were seen to go schools from morning to join their classes in two shifts. At different places, the students and their parents said that they were happy with the resumption of in-person classes.
The authorities are also taking extra classes to make up the learning gaps in last two years due to covid pandemic.
The guardians with their children were seen gathering in front of different schools in the capital defying social distances.
Following directives of the primary and mass education ministry, the primary schools were taking classes in morning and day shifts.
Students of Class I to Class II were in morning shift between 9:15am to 12:00noon and students of Class III to Class V were in day shift between 12:15pm and 4:15pm from Sunday to Thursday.
At Zigatola Model Government Primary School, students were seen greeting inside without following queues.
‘We’re happy as they spent last two years at home during the pandemic,’ said Monika Devi, a mother of a Class IV student in the school.
According to the school teachers, they were happy due to resumption of in-person classes though the attendance was low at the school on the day.
‘Some of the students of Class I and Class II became impatient as, instead of three classes, now they have to stay for attending five classes,’ said a teacher.
They were taking one extra class in each of the classes to make up the students’ learning gaps, she added.
Gathering of parents and children were also seen in front of the entrance of Viqarunnisa Noon School in the capital on Wednesday morning.
Earlier, the authorities said that all have to follow health regulations strictly during in person classes.
The in-person classes in all the educational institutions remained suspended from January 21 to till February 21 following a government order due to increase in covid cases.
Classes resumed in secondary to higher educational institutions on February 22.
Earlier, the government kept all educational institutions shut for more than one and a half years between March 18, 2020 and September 11, 2021 due to the Covid situation.
According to a UNICEF report, Bangladesh has seen the second longest closure of schools in the world due to Covid-19.
With New Age input
