The learning support programme for State school students from Classes V to IX who failed to secure 30% minimum marks in the annual examinations got under way in the State on Monday amid a lot of confusion.
Though the Director of General Education had issued a clarification late Sunday on the change in class timings to 7.30 a.m.-10.30 a.m. instead of the scheduled 9.30 a.m.- 12.30 p.m. in the wake of a Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights directive to ensure that the classes wound up at 10.30 a.m. before the daytime temperatures rose, teachers’ organisations were unhappy about it.
Expecting students and teachers, many of whom travelled quite a distance, to reach school at 7.30 a.m. was impractical, especially as school buses did not ply for select students attending the learning support classes, they said.
Some schools received only oral directions on the rescheduling of the classes, heightening the uncertainty over the timings to be followed.
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