According to a circular issued by the education department on Wednesday. The 292 Mumbai schools chosen for the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021, on the other hand, will reopen on Thursday. The state had cut back on the holiday and ordered schools to reopen on Thursday, a day before the poll, which was scheduled for Friday. However, confusion about the reopening lingered across the state until late Wednesday. Previously, the state had left it up to schools to adjust the upcoming Diwali holidays with Christmas or summer breaks, according to a circular dated November 3. Selected schools must collect 30 pupils for each standard for the survey. For example, if a school is chosen to survey classes 5 and 10, all students must be contacted. Thirty people from each class will be chosen at random using chits.
Parents are under pressure to send their children to school since schools have been urged to achieve 100% attendance for the survey. However, schools in the state had reopened with parental approval for grades 5 to 12 in rural regions and grades 8 to 12 in urban areas. Parents have been advised that attendance at school on Thursday and Friday is required for the survey. “We got a call saying my daughter needed to come to school or else her academic calendar will be ruined,” said the dad of a Class 10 student in Bandra. Students are required to attend school on Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. They must carry their tiffin and water.
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The state has allowed pupils to travel by train for the survey. The person accompanying the student does not need to be completely immunized. According to school administrators, parents’ willingness to send their children to school is low. “They are refusing to send students to school for only two days,” remarked an administrator, who needs to bring in class.
