CHENNAI: Students who will return to high schools and schools on September 1 will need to be prepared for a special campus experience. Classes are getting to be persisted alternate days, there’ll be no lunching together, sharing of textbooks, meetings, study tours or sporting activities.
The government has begin with an in depth SOP that tells colleges and schools what to try to to as they welcome students.
Final year students post graduate courses and professional courses like engineering will have classes on all six days while first years will have online classes As per the SOP, second year graduate students will attend college on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while third year students will attend classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For professional courses like BE and Btech, second year students will come on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while third year students will come on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Faculty and staff should be vaccinated. Colleges should have quarantine facilities and traffic jam with nearest hospitals for college kids with symptoms.
Guru Nanak College principal M G Raghunathan said, “We will pass the SOP but are going to be splitting the classes. If there’s a category of 40, it’ll be split into two and two teachers will teach. we’ll tell science students to return at some point and commerce students to return on another day.”
Shanaz Ahamed, principal of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for ladies , said reopening is sweet for the scholars because they’re going to be ready to clarify doubts. “But we may need to split the classes to take care of social distancing. We started an equivalent way last year.”
Schools will see regular health checks as per the SOP. K Manoharan, principal of SBOA School, said “We have sent guidelines to oldsters about rules on dropping students at lunch time. Gates are specified for every class. Teachers will monitor students during breaks. Furniture has been arranged.”
