As you heard, those measures will be in place for two weeks starting on Sunday, August 23rd. They will be fully detailed tomorrow night in another Saturday night edition of "Ask The Experts".
And while many openings are being restricted, pre, primary and secondary schools will have their own kind of opening. Pre and primary will open on September the 7th but there will be no face to face instruction, distance learning only. The Minister explained:
Hon. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education
"This afternoon I am proposing that we attempt to start in terms of the re-opening of schools for distance education only on Monday, September 7th, 2020. Again, this is for distance only for pre-schools and primary schools. For secondary schools, we are proposing the date of Monday, October 5th. These proposed dates are for distance education only. The official start date for those students approved for doing home-schooling is Monday, September 7th."
"So, what do we mean when we say distance only? For pre and primary schools, this distance education means that we will primarily focus on paper-based learning so that pre and primary school teachers will develop learning activities and assignments for students based on the school's curriculum and available student text books. You know we have a free text book and workbook programme in the Ministry of Education and this is what they will use."
"Parents will be asked to pick up these items from the school or from a designated pick up point that is identified by the school that your child attends. Parents will return completed assignments and assessments to the school or to the designated drop off point identified by the school."
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