60% of parents give consent to physical classes after BMC’s announcement to resume physical classes

After the announcement made by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to open physical classrooms for students of classes 8 to 12 from the 4th of October, around 60 percent of parents supported this decision and gave consent to their children. Of total 67,000 children studying in class 8 to 10 at 781 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) run schools have agreed on this decision and said yes to send their children to schools resuming from 4th of October for physical classes.

 

With this, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has declared to resume schools both private and public for classes 8 to 12. As per the data released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials in a total of 781 schools in the city of Mumbai have a total of 67,361 eligible students falling under the category who can join the physical classes. 

 

“60 percent of parents have agreed to send their children to school premises for physical classes,” stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official. Further, the officials stated that some parents have not given consent because as the festivals are approaching, they are in their native place with the online classes taking place in the past, but our motive is that more and more students take benefit of offline classes. 

 

The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) released for resuming physical classes by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) states that there is no requirement of 100 percent attendance in physical classes and consent of parents will be necessary. 

A positive step that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken is of mandating the school management to link their respective schools with the closest Health Centre before they resume the physical schools, to be on a safer side in case of emergencies in students and staff.