Even as the Federal Government has dropped the idea of re-opening schools for WAEC candidates, the Imo State Government has commenced plans to re-open schools in the state.
This was made known after Wednesday’s State Executive Council meeting in Owerri, as plans are underway. The government will meet with stakeholders in the education sector including parents and heads of private and public schools to collectively work out the re-opening modalities in line with COVID-19 protocols.
According to what report learned, at the end of the weekly Executive Council Meeting held at the Sam Mbakwe Executive Chambers on Wednesday, the government agreed to set modalities in motion for the resumption of schools in Imo.
The Commissioner for Education, Prof. B. T. O. Ikegwuoha was directed to interface with the stakeholders to work out the plan for a seamless resumption of schools. This may have come before the Federal Govt decided to stop resumption of schools late Wednesday after the State Exco council.
In another report, due to the coronavirus outbreak, schools were affected worldwide and learning were suspended, in bid to checkmate the ugly menace terrorising the world.
And gradually some countries has opened up their schools, but Schools in Kenya have been asked to refund parents with the fees they paid for their ward at the beginning of the academic year or agree to use the fees for next year.
He made this known while he was responding to concerns raised after his announcement yesterday, that primary and secondary schools would not reopen until 2021 as Coronavirus cases in the country were rising.
According to him, the school’s calendar has been declared null and void as a result of COVID-19 and all students would be made to repeat a year as schools closed in mid-March, three months after school calendar started.
Although some parents weren’t happy with the decision of the government to have their wards repeat a year in school, through parent association, they eventually agreed that the children can continue to learn online.
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