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CORONA PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT:

SCHOOL HEADS URGE PARENTS NOT TO LET CHILDREN PLAY OUTSIDE

 

BY P S SUNDAR 

 

In the context of corona second wave infecting children and experts calling for special care to protect children, Heads of Schools in The Nilgiris have urged parents not to let their children play outside especially with other children during the ongoing lockdown.

 

“Reports have it that some 50,000 children have already been infected by this deadly disease and some 12 and 13 year olds have died in various places in the country calling for more responsible parenting during this lockdown”, Principal of Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Glenn Croning told me.

 

“We have strictly advised parents to ensure that their children stay indoors during this lockdown”, he said.

 

“As the Chief Minister M K Stalin said, ‘this is not leave but lockdown’.   The very purpose of closing the schools is to protect children from Covid-19 but if they are let to play with other children outside, it defeats the purpose of closing schools and exposes the children to getting infected”, Principal of St Joseph’s Boy’s Higher Secondary School and Academy Bro Solomon Alexander said.   

 

“I am addressing parents to be cautious on this”, he said.

 

“Recently, we took measures to prevent some of our students from going for work as lockdown has hit the family income but we also notice some parents letting their children play in the open to drive away lockdown boredom”, Headmaster of Government-aided St Antony’s Higher Secondary School Bro Dr Thomas Selvam said.

 

“We do not want even a single student to suffer from corona especially due to the negligence of parents and have warned them”, he noted.

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