Schools make it available to “Corona” patients exclusively

Students' parents propose generalizing "distance education" for people with infectious diseases

The student’s joining the distance education system is linked to specific conditions.

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The students’ families suggested benefiting from the “distance education” experience, by assigning it to students who suffer from seasonal infectious diseases, such as influenza and conjunctivitis.

They said that the "distance education" experience enabled students, during the "Corona" pandemic, to continue studying, despite some of them being infected with the Corona virus, stressing the possibility of benefiting from the "distance education" system, and activating it for students who are unable to attend school for a medical reason. , because it allows them to understand and follow the lessons and do their homework, instead of the teacher having to re-explain the lessons to them.

The administrations of private schools said that they limit distance education to students infected with the Corona virus, while others confirmed that they had received suggestions from students’ families, calling on them to take advantage of the distance education system, noting that they are studying the possibility of applying it in certain sick cases.

In detail, the mother of a student at a private school in Fujairah, which follows the curriculum of the Ministry of Education, Noura Muhammad Al Zaabi, confirmed that her daughter suffers from seasonal flu, and that she was finally forced to miss school for more than a week, which made her contact the school administration asking her to allow her daughter to join the “education” system. remotely” so that she can follow her lessons and do her homework.

She pointed out that the school administration rejected her request, despite the approaching exams period, and the possibility that her daughter's academic achievement would be negatively affected, given the long period during which she was forced to be absent.

And she added that the school administration attributed its refusal to allow her daughter to continue her studies remotely to the fact that only students infected with the Corona virus are allowed to benefit from this system.

A father of a second-grade primary student, in a private school in Fujairah, that follows the curriculum of the Ministry of Education, Abdul Karim Muhammad, stated that his son was exposed to a health problem that required him to be hospitalized for four days, and during his illness he contacted his son’s class teacher to enable him to continue studying remotely, and she answered that he did not It is allowed to transfer the student to this system, except in certain cases, according to the school's laws.

And an administrator in a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, Aisha Muhammad, said that the instructions of the Ministry of Education, that education be in attendance, and that distance education be limited to students infected with “Corona” and high-risk medical cases.

She pointed out that the school administration received suggestions to open remote classrooms in the event a student contracted an infectious disease, or was absent from school for more than a week, and submitted the suggestions to the responsible department for study and evaluation, and to determine the extent of their impact on the student's level of achievement.

An administrator in a private school said that the student’s joining the distance education system is linked to specific conditions, including obtaining a documented medical excuse that includes the period during which he will be absent from school, provided that it exceeds four days, in addition to the occurrence of an infection with an infectious disease that school administrations stress on Failure of the student to attend school in order to preserve the safety of his classmates.

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