PETALING JAYA: Parents want more transparency when it comes to standard operating procedures (SOP) practised in schools when teachers or students are found to be infected with Covid-19.
This comes as more confirmed cases were recorded, with the latest from SJK (C) Puay Chai 2 here which was ordered to close after six pupils tested positive for the disease and 11 teachers were placed under home quarantine.
The school s parent-teacher association chairman Loh Tian Hong said parents were not told what to do if their child s classmate was positive for Covid-19. There is no black-and-white SOP or guidance given to us. We do not know if it is safe to send our children to school as the pupils come into close contact with each other, including going to the same daycare centre or using the same transporters, he told
However, the National Union of the Teaching Profession has been less critical of the situation.
While its secretary-general Harry H.H. Tan agrees that there have been some negative impact, he pointed out that the teaching and learning process continued through the pandemic.
“It is a continuous process and it does not matter whether it is done at home or at school,” he said.
Nonetheless, he conceded that children who do not have access to their teachers for various reasons, such as poverty or being in broken families, have been left to find their own way.
He said the teaching and learning process will return to normal now that schools have reopened.
PETALING JAYA: It was chaotic for some schools as secondary students returned in full force.
Crowd control, parents said, was a major issue.
The downpour led to jams outside several schools as students waited for their transport to go home.
Melaka Action Group for Parents in Education chairman Mak Chee Kin said while students and teachers attempted to comply with the standard operating procedure, the situation was less than ideal in some schools.
Controlling the large volume of students at the end of the school day was poor, he said.
“Parents informed me that some schools did not allow them to enter the compound, so many of them gathered outside the gate.
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - All five million students in Malaysia were in school on Monday (April 5), the first time that every student is back in school since the country had to grapple with the third wave of Covid-19 cases.
While schools started welcoming back students as early as March 1 this year, only preschoolers and pupils in primary Years One and Two, followed by those in Year Three to Six a week later, were allowed into their classrooms then under a staggered return.
All secondary school students have resumed schooling on Monday after five months, starting with those in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu on Sunday.
PETALING JAYA: All five million students are in school today, the first time that everyone is back since the country had to grapple with the third wave of Covid-19 cases.
While schools started welcoming back students as early as March 1 this year, only preschoolers and pupils in primary Years One and Two, followed by those in Year Three to Six a week later, were allowed into their classrooms then under a staggered return.
All secondary school students have resumed schooling today after five months, starting with those in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu yesterday.
The reason that secondary school students were the last to physically return to school was to make way for the SPM and STPM 2020 examinations, which were postponed to early this year.