By Ayodele Oni
Apparently shunning an advisory from the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu, the Ekiti state Government has asked both the public and private schools in the state to reopen on the 3rd of August, 2020.
Those involved are pupils and students in graduating classes, but conditions are attached.
The decision to allow pupils return to classrooms was taken after a virtual meeting of Commissioners for education in the South West region.
The State Commissioner for Education, Mr Foluso Daramola, disclosed in Ado Ekiti that Commissioners for Education in the South- West, after the virtual meeting, agreed to plan for schools resumption.
According to him, pupils in Primary six and students in JSS three as well as those in Senior Secondary School three are to resume on the 3rd of August to enable them prepare for their final examinations.
The Commissioner advised parents and guardians to provide three face masks for their children and wards while government would make available all protective materials needed to fight covid- 19 in the public schools.
Mr Daramola stated that any private school with two gates must close one to control movement in and out of the school, while authorities of private primary and secondary schools should make available all materials required to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
He said that government would not allow the use of school buses by private schools to convey students to, and from their various schools.
He, also, said the steps were part of the Government’s effort to check the spread of Coronavirus in the state.
The Federal Ministry for Education had advised against the re-opening of schools, saying that Federal owner schools will not be allowed to open. Adamu said it was better for them to lose one school calendar than to contract Coronavirus.
The FG had, initially, said that those in terminal classes would be allowed to resume, but went back on its words, as the number of COVID-19 Victims rose astronomically.
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