Kuwait: Due to the pandemic, the Cabinet of Ministers is expected to make a decision at its meeting to end the 2019-2020 school year in accordance with the recommendations of the Minister of Education, Dr. Saud Al Harbi. The government suspended all public schools on March 12 and extended the suspension until August 4. The 2020-2021 school year for public schools was scheduled to begin on December 1, as the government failed to pass election e-learning.
“The government has established an online learning platform, but academics complain that they can’t access it,” Dr. Duna Al Mashaan, A K-12 education consultant, told Gulf News.
Al Harbi will propose that the public school year end for students from kindergarten through grade 11. As for grade 12 students, they will need to continue their online learning and ministers will determine how and when they will complete their final exams.
According to Al Harbi’s report, published through Al Qabas, all academic grades will be based on the first semester and all academics who have completed more than four subjects will move on to the next class. In addition, final exams for grade 12 students will be held in schools the week of September.
With regard to the reopening of schools, Al Harbi’s report proposes that the 2020-2021 school year should begin between 4 and 11 October. If the COVID-19 scenario is not resolved, the courses will be online.
“Online learning is behind us. Today, we want to participate in how we will bring our youth back to school. Online learning was a transitional solution to help academics cope during the first months of COVID, but continued online learning is neither feasible nor productive,” Al Mashaan said. These recommendations apply only to public schools, as personal schools have organized online courses on the pandemic and ended the school year on time.
“Students want the design of the class. The further away you are from school, the more they’ll be able to go back to school,” Al Mashaan said.
Al Mashaan also noted that “keeping young people away from school and their friends has a negative mental impact. I don’t think the department’s resolution takes into account the side effects of being at home without intellectual education or social stimulus. If these young people don’t go back to school, they may never catch up.”
Schools around the world are looking for tactics for students to return to school until September. Some have proposed a hybrid method, where one part of the academics elegantly teaches while the other part takes online courses and then changes.
“Parents have the opportunity to send their children to school or stay home through online learning; especially young people with underlying fitness disorders or those whose parents are concerned,” Al Mashaan explained.
Kuwait is expected to complete its five phases and return to the overall plan until September.
“As the economy reopens, how do parents repaint while their children stay home?” told the Mashaan.
Last month, private school teachers were ignored because schools were unable to pay wages during this period. The resolution came after the Ministry of Education asked schools not to ask parents for payment.
“Teachers are like parents and children. They didn’t get any data on when schools would resume and were not informed of any other plans,” Al Mashaan said.
Teachers have been prevented from traveling because they are invited to passport control to provide a legal exit visa through the Ministry of Education, Al Anba reported.
For kuwaiti, many teachers have struggled to renovate their homes due to bureaucratic problems, according to an Al Qabas report.
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