Parents Task RSG On Virtual Learning In Public Schools

As schools resume full academic session in Rivers State, parents have called on the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, to consider running full virtual and digital classroom for all public schools in the state.
The parents spoke at a random interview  with The Tide in Port Harcourt yesterday.
One of the parents, Mrs Uju Okoro, said the virtual class would enable the pupils and students to adjust properly to the current academic challenge caused by the Conoravirus pandemic.
Okoro pointed out that the challenge faced by students last year during the lockdown period would have been less if provisions for digital learning had been on ground before then.
She said it would not be ideal to shut down the schools in the wave of COVID-19 resurgence.
Another parent, Chief John Nworlu, expressed regrets that while lessons were ongoing in the private schools during the lockdown period, public schools in the state were shut down due to lack of virtual or Smart class learning facilities.
Nworlu explained that the lockdown period should have provided opportunities for public schools in the state to key into digital learning.
According to him, the best option now is for government to embrace full digital platform even in the absence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her view, Mrs Chisa Amadi said government schools may continue to loose pupils and students to private schools if urgent steps are not taken by the former to commence full digital learning.
Amadi recalled that many parents took their wards and children to private schools last year when they could no longer cope with them at home due to the biting effect of the lockdown.
“The government should try and introduce full digital learning system. During the lockdown period, many of us took our wards and children to schools with electronic learning system”, she said.
Some other parents argued that since most examinations are now computer based, it would be fit and proper for the students to be taught same from their formative days.
It would be recalled that Rivers State was among the first states in the country to introduce e-system in its public sector operations.

By: King Onunwor