90% parents want to send kids to school in Hry, finds survey

 90% parents want to send kids to school in Hry, finds survey

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Tiwari@timesgroup.com

31.01.2022

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Gurgaon: Around 90% of parents in the state want to send their children to school and physical classes to resume, an online survey conducted by an association of private institutions has found.

As part of their Siksha Bachao, School Kholo campaign, a group of private schools had last week rolled out the survey to assess the mood of parents regarding offline classes. Although the survey will be carried out for two more days, the association said they had so far rece- ived responses from nearly 14,000 parents and 87% of them wanted to send their kids to school.

Conducted by the Federation of Private Schools’ Welfare Association, the survey had four questions for the parents — do they agree with the closure of schools, is shutting down schools logical when all other activities are operational, has the closure led to learning gaps, and whether they want to send their children back to school.

The association hopes to receive responses from 20,000 parents by Tuesday. Once the survey is complete, representatives of some of the private schools will meet education minister Kanwar Pal and push for physical classes to resume.

“We have launched this survey as part of the Siksha Bachao, School Kholo campaign. Not just schools, pa- rents, too, want offline classes to resume. That is why we are conducting this survey. When both parents and schools are on the same page, we don’t see why the government is not listening to our demands?” asked Kulbhushan Sharma, president of the association.