Parent, teacher groups say no to school closures


Ragananthini Vethasalam Noel Achariam

The benefits of physical school outweigh that of online classes, according to parent and teacher groups. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 25, 2021.

ALTHOUGH the number of new Covid-19 cases has stayed above 2,000 in the last week, parent and teacher groups are still against closing all schools as they fear the children will lag too far behind in their studies.

They said better options than a blanket closure would be to give parents the freedom to decide whether their children should continue with physical classes and for closures to be done according to the severity of Covid-19 infections in a given location.


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