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What More Than an Executive order

Life with COVID is already pressing and frustrating. And having to follow unending executive orders and protocols is yet creating another deadlock in the public. 

Knowing the fast transmissible nature of this variant [Omicron], why were the foreign labourers imported without due process? Who is accountable?

I did not take much interest when MoE passed an ultra executive order stating all the schools with class X and XII to function in self-containment mode for a month or so with immediate effect. I was never into the idea. I was least bothered but kept following some authentic news outlets. I knew the much-awaited unfolding consequences. I usually don't rely much on quick order. Decisions such as this shouldn't come at such haste. They should work, plan, think, discuss, and reflect more than just merely sitting for a meeting to pass an executive order is absolutely mean.

Arrangements such as fooding and lodging for more than 1000 heads in most of the campus without proper rooms, toilets, washrooms, water and lighting would be a nightmare, very tiring and costly. I know how difficult boarding schools are facing on a daily basis to manage a handful, hardly 200-300 border students with hostel amenities in place. 

First, thing I saw was, inconveniences for a feeding mother [teacher] to be on campus just to meet the national order. This is not fair on human ground. It's difficult to manage a small kid by person away from home to a different atmosphere. There are many teacher couples in the same school with small kids, managed through day babysitters, or by aging parents. There are many single parent teachers who have their kids and parents to look after and some couples whose spouses work in different agencies and need pick and drop service. Further, there are teachers who need to attend to their aging parents, or special children back at home. So making such a hoax plan would serve the national cause but not humanity.

The other pressing issue we have in our present school setting is, our school infrastructures are never...never... never meant to hold such an arrangement since most of our school buildings do not have proper doors, floors, windows, staircase, ceiling; lighting system, toilets, water. 

I am consoling this shall pass too and life will be all-better thereafter. 

 

 

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