As schools reopen, board classes find attendance in Ahmedabad

To assist teachers to engage with both offline and online students, schools have also been investing in infrastructure

In Gujarat, where schools reopened for Classes 9 onwards on July 26, board exam pressure is driving students back to the classroom with attendance higher in Classes 10 and 12. In tiny numbers, though. “We have been trying to convince the parents of our classmates to allow them to come to school. The whole environment and mood of learning is different and better in the classroom,” says Pooja Khubchandani, a Class 10 student of Sakar English School, Ahmedabad. She is one of the four students from the 50 in her section attending offline classes.

For teachers this means double the effort