KARACHI: Many private schools’ associations of Sindh called a joint press conference to discuss the prevailing situation regarding the closure of schools here at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.
They said that everything and everyone had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the biggest drawbacks and losses were being suffered by the education sector.
“The closing of schools again and again has been a big blow to us,” said Tariq Shah, central chairman, All Private Schools Management Association-Sindh.
Quoting World Bank estimates, he said one million of the total schoolchildren whose education was disturbed due to Covid-19 last year didn’t return to their schools even after they reopened.
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