Kerala schools News

The Kerala Rights Body has issued a directive to all schools in the state Students are asked to address teachers as 'teacher' and not 'sir' or 'madam'

"Our culture does not accept boys and girls hugging and sitting together" said SNDP general secretary Once the children grow up and attain maturity, they can do whatever they want, Natesan said NSS and SNDP are two major Hindu caste outfits in the state

Though classes till grade nine will shift to online mode from January 21 for two weeks, the other classes will continue to be offline. To maintain strict Covid data management, all the concerned departments have been directed to coordinate to prepare the data.

Last week, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority had announced that schools would reopen for all classes from Nov 1 The schools have been asked to ensure that there is not more than 50% attendance in a class at one point of time

The decision was taken as 95 per cent of the adult population in the state has been vaccinated with at least the first dose and there has been a reduction in the number of new COVID-19 cases. 

The Minister said the plan would involve ensuring masks, sanitiser for students and measures to maintain social distancing and the guidelines for the vehicles which transport students to schools.

He was replying to various questions raised by Legislator Ramachandran Kadannappally Sivankutty said the state government has initiated various programmes including "Our Responsibility to Children" (ORC) to ensure the mental health of school students

Kerala schools are opening from first week of January. Kerala Education Department has released a SOP for school reopening. Students will be required to maintain social distancing of 2 metres from one another.

The IT@School project has been entrusted the responsibility of forming a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to oversee the programme.