students on unprecedented long vacations
The Ed Dept can only think of teachers and how to harass them keep them engaged as they are paid and hence subject their functioning to their whims and fancies .Deploy them to conduct surveys, and similarly on election related duties depriving vacations and totally alien to their dedication of academics .The recent case of ordering them to report to schools against central directives is unjustified and unreasonable , when the students are absent. Has the school made special arrangements for their online process? Why subject them to risks of infections by daily travel ? Has everyone their own transport? Can they not do it from safe confines of their homes when most employees adopt this process? Do managements need to keep check on physical presence by not trusting integrity of their staff? Online method has to be perfected with technical facilities, skills,and continuity, regularity of internet. What about those who cannot afford this means of communications? All students are not in love with studies .They are forced by parents . Who will supervise them with working parents and uneducated some? It is difficult to arrest their attention span of 35 min duration in schools under strict supervision and unchecked their concentration easily fluctuates. To remain glued to online transmissions however effective. is a natter of speculations Students who are mature enough and have goal ofdetermination and purpose for self direction are a minuscule few Online may work with higher class students from Std X onwards but even then efficacy has to be verified .The period of long holidays often is unproductive for students to sustain interest in studies ,hence there is need to keep them fruitfully occupied and to that extent also teaching staff and not because they are paid monthly remuneration Without personal physical contact, monitoring, evaluations on line may be a difficult proposition at school level and specially at lower levels with no feed back on slow learners and other learning disabilities The current circumstances are very dangerous for spread of deadly , fatal infections and students cannot be subjected to such risks of regular attendance with poor facilities Life is more important than preoccupation with studies , careers with serious consequences. Hence loss of an academic year is not an end of the road until and unless a vaccine will ensure safety of young population Stop gap arrangements are temporary to tide over situations and not an answeror solutions nelson lopes Chinchinim Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone