Ekiti govt shifts school resumption date from July to August

By Emmanuel Olorunsola

The Ekiti State Government has changed the resumption date of pupils and students in graduating classes at both private and public schools in the state to August 3 from July20.

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This announcement was made during a media chat  in Ado-Ekiti by Mr Foluso Daramola, the State’s Commissioner for Education.

The State Commissioner for Education stressed that the South-West states held a virtual meeting where each state was told to plan for resumption of school.

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“Pupils in primary six and students in JSS 3, SSS 3 were to resume on the new date,”he said.

Daramola also urged parents and guardians to provide three face masks each, for their children and wards.

According to him, the government would make available all protective materials needed to curb the spread of COVID-19 to public and private schools.

He said that any private school with two gates must close one to control movement in and out of the school.

He added that authorities of private primary and secondary schools should make available other materials required to contain the virus.

Daramola said  that the government had also banned the use of school buses by private schools to convey pupils and students to their various schools, saying the action was in line with social distancing protocol.

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It would be recalled that the Governor Kayode Fayemi announced in June in a broadcast that the school would reopen to graduating classes on July 20, after four months of closure by government, occasioned by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Fayemi had also said the school resumption would be in phases, starting with students in terminal classes (SSS3, JSS3 and Primary 6) to prepare for their exams, while other classes would be gradually absorbed as schools meet all requirements to accommodate them.