Taken into consideration the recent upsurge of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, some Grade 12 teachers have suggested the closure of the schools to curb the spread of the virus.
Among them include Kiskey Saidykhan, a teacher at Masroor Senior Secondary School. He said “looking at the situation right now students are not responding as expected, because parents know how dangerous this Covid-19 is. Parents are not allowing their kids to come to school and the preventive measures they can use to prevent their kids from the virus is to abstain them from coming to school, because of this the school is really handicapped. If you enter the class as a teacher you will only find few students sitting down.”
Another teacher Abubacarr Kanagie said “Students are risking their lives coming to school. And in the class when you ask any of the students a question, they won’t be able to respond because they were not reading and this will have great impact on them if they should be given exams. We the teachers are appealing to the government to please hold on to this issue of reopening of schools until they can contain the virus because prevention is better than cure.”
Alieu Saho, an examination candidate at Masroor expressed that “Covid-19 has impacted a lot on our education because when we go to school now there is constant fear as the Ministry of Health says there is currently a community transmission and lately the positive people places of contracted the virus cannot be established”.
He added that “So there is always this constant fear that we might have the virus because people are coming from different homes and it’s really difficult to implement the rules of coronavirus in schools though we are adhering to the rules but it’s difficult.”