She suffered student withdrawal during the past year

Private schools in Fujairah: The return of direct school hours has increased enrollment rates

Parents of students who preferred the realistic education system for their children during the next academic year.

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The administrations of private schools in the Emirate of Fujairah have reported an increase in the enrollment rate of kindergarten and other school students for the next academic year, after announcing the return of the realistic school educational system, while keeping the option of the "distance education" system in the hands of parents, stressing that it suffered the withdrawal of a large number of students during last year.

School administrations reported that they sent emails to students' families, at the end of this year's school year, to resume in-person education with the option of distance education during the next academic year, explaining that the fees in both options are fixed, and the majority preferred realistic education.

Parents in the Emirate of Fujairah confirmed to "Emirates Today" that they have adopted the realistic education system from the pre-kindergarten stage to the twelfth grade for the next academic year, wanting their children to mix with their peers and enter a new academic year with a different educational atmosphere that contributes to improving their levels. educational.

An administrator at a private school in Fujairah, Aisha Muhammad, confirmed that most of the students’ families preferred the realistic education system for their children during the next academic year and was not limited to one stage without another, noting that most of the school seats had been reserved and fees paid, as the vacant seats were limited and students were accommodated. The new ones, which included different stages of study, as they did not focus on kindergarten stages only, as in previous years.

She noted that a team of administrative and teaching staff has been assigned to work throughout the summer from eight in the morning until four in the evening to inform parents about sterile classrooms, and how to arrange students' seating areas, to encourage them to enroll in the realistic education system.

She indicated that the school administration is ready for the students' return to the school campus and the implementation of the realistic education system, as all methods and ways that will contribute to protecting students and teaching, educational and administrative staff from infection with the Corona virus have been studied through new procedures that will be imposed on students during the next school year represented in bringing all School students have their own tablet in order to participate in class activities and solve exercises through it, in addition to sterilizing classes, allocating a portal for parents and another for educational and administrative staff, and other precautionary measures that will be followed during the next school year.

The director of a private school, who preferred not to be named, said that the school administration submitted a letter to the Ministry of Education, stating that it is possible to allow the inclusion of the real and “distance” education systems throughout the next academic year as an option for students, after the school conducted a survey, in which most of the students’ families expressed a desire To bring their children to school to receive a realistic education.

She pointed out that most of the parents who registered their children students in the distance education system have logical reasons that their children suffer from chronic diseases that prevent them from receiving the “Corona” vaccination, noting that the number of requests to return to realistic studies has increased significantly, especially from those with Students of the first stages and kindergartens, knowing that the distance education system will be 100% available for students whose parents prefer to keep them at home for fear of infection with the virus, and this ensures maximum benefit from the classes even if their area is small, and we will also provide a greater number of supervisors and online platforms to ensure effective education for all children.

"We are committed to ensuring that all of our students continue to learn and make good progress in all areas of school life, and we will continue to maintain the highest safety standards through regular sterilization and reduced student numbers in classes and allocated resources," she said.

In addition, the supervisor of the kindergarten department at a private school that applies the British curriculum in Fujairah, who preferred not to publish her name, noted that parents began to feel the low levels of their children while receiving lessons in the distance education system during the previous school year, which made them demand the implementation of the realistic education system. Direct in the classroom so that the student receives his education in a realistic and better scientific methods that contribute to their understanding of the lessons instead of the default system, which obliges the guardian to make a double effort to improve his son or daughter’s academic level.

The guardian of a student in a private school in Fujairah, Asma Abdullah Al-Dhanhani, said that she preferred to choose the distance education system for her son, who studies in the kindergarten stage throughout the previous school year, but she faced great difficulty in establishing it, as this stage depends on the training skills of the teacher in Communicate information easily and smoothly, and these skills are often not available in the guardian.

She confirmed that she had to enroll her son in private lessons to be able to read and write properly.

The guardian, Mona Salem Muhammad, stated that children have acquired a great health culture and are able to absorb the health conditions and precautionary measures followed in school classrooms, especially as they have gone out to public places better than the previous period.

And she pointed out that she chose the realistic education for her daughter, who is studying at the secondary level, despite her chronic illness, but she finished all doses of the vaccine against the Corona virus, which encouraged her to take such a step.

School supervisor:

• "Parents felt the low levels of their children while receiving remote lessons."

• Schools prepared with health measures that protect students and teaching staff from infection with the “Corona” virus.

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