More international schools in Mumbai seek BMC’s permission to reopen – Education News
After three foreign schools in Mumbai were allowed to reopen their campuses this academic year, other international schools offering a Baccalaureate or a Cambridge program have now written to the BMC to seek permission for in-person schooling.
The Association of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools has cited their example to seek BMC’s permission for offline schooling for all its 20-odd member institutions. They have cited the constraints posed by online teaching and loss of social and developmental learning as reasons for the need to be back in the physical space. Schools in Mumbai have been shut since the March 2020 lockdown.
ASB, DSB and LFIM are members of the same Association. Frank Braccia, chairperson, India IB Heads, western division, said IB schools had conducted physical board exams in February-March and had zero Covid cases.
International schools have a low student-teacher ratio and all Covid protocols in place to reopen in the physical mode, the representatives told BMC.With another board exam due in November, these schools now want to bring students back to classrooms.
The Members of International Schools Association (MISA) that represents 110 Cambridge board schools, including 82 in Mumbai, has also made the same demand. Over 45 of them had written even earlier in January seeking approval to reopen.
Dr Kavita Aggarwal, MISA chairperson, said, “The best time to start is when cases are decreasing.” Cambridge schools want the 9-12 grade students to have in-person learning. All international schools are ready with their plans to reopen, said Dr Aggarwal.
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