One day after thousands of public nursery, primary and secondary school students started their Christmas vacation, Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw is urging their parents to be prepared for their return to physical classroom next year, albeit in a phased way.
And in encouraging them to ensure their children, especially those 12- to 17-year-olds are inoculated, she said the Ministry of Health and Wellness was “dealing with the regulations as it relates” to vaccinations.
From the start of this academic year in September until Thursday, classes were totally virtual for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started.
The minister, who was speaking during a $51.6 million money resolution, or Supplementary Estimates No 6, in the House of Assembly 2021-2022 Friday, of which Government is seeking $4.4 million for the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, said that once the Ministry of Health and Wellness gives the green light, students will go back.
“We have been preparing for January of next year . . . . We have been preparing and I always say we prepare with a plan A, a plan B, a plan C for the readiness for school, simply because we have been in this situation for the last two years where every time we plan that we’re going back to school, we then have another situation where there’s either another variant or there is some difficulty that we have to encounter and we have to address. And so, the preparations for 2022 are no different. (GBM)
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