New Delhi : Parents dropping off their children to school buses with mixed emotions, ensuring that they were carrying sanitizer bottles and well-decorated schools — these were the scenes in Delhi-NCR as institutions resumed offline classes from Friday after a gap of more than two years.
Sudha Acharya, chairperson of the National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC), which has over 120 private schools as its members, said that students were eagerly awaiting this day. “It is after two years that schools are re-reopening and students were excited to get back to school,” she said.
Acharya is the principal of ITL Public School, Dwarka. At her school, teachers conducted a special prayer assembly for students. “Teachers had prepared special performances for students and it’s like a festival today. Yesterday, we held a farewell for Class 12 students and they were very happy. At 11 am, we will tune in for the prime minister’s Pariksha Pe Charcha,” she said.
Rashmi Dixit, parent of a Class 5 student of Shri Ram Global School in Noida Extension, said, “My son was earlier studying in Nagpur and today is his first day in his new school. He had been attending online classes of this school for the last one year. He will be meeting his friends. Students had grown comfortable with the idea of online classes but this will be a good shift for them as they will get back into a proper routine.”
