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KUALA LUMPUR: The National Parents-Teacher Associations Consultative Council (PIBGN) has suggested that the Ministry of Education (MOE) to turn district education offices (PPDs) into ‘one stop centres’ in addressing problems related to home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) and DidikTV KPM.
PIBGN president, Associate Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Ali Hasan said that it was due to PPDs being the best medium to communicate with parents who face complications, and bring their problems to the authorities immediately.
“I suggest that the MOE creates a hotline managed by dedicated staff who are specifically assigned to address any of these matters (PdPR and DidikTV) at the district level, rather than being centralised at the state or national level.
PETALING JAYA: Schools should only fully close if the number of Covid-19 cases within the school fraternity starts climbing.
National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Harry Tan said: “This is to ensure education can go on uninterrupted for the other students, providing that those who tested positive are quickly isolated and quarantined.”
“If only one person is found to be positive, then that person will already be told to quarantine while, I believe, the Health Ministry conducts contact tracing, ” he said.
He added that the authorities had been consistent in determining the need to temporarily close affected schools or classes or quarantine the affected individuals.
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
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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.