EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin. (File photo)
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said officials are in dialogue with the Ministry of Health regarding when children can come in normal numbers to the classroom.
Students returned to school campuses with the hybrid model in January. However, back in March, Director of Education Marcellus Taylor noted there were many schools doing some version of this model where students are on the campus for three or four days a week.
The minister said on Friday she is in talks regarding children being allowed back to school "100 percent".
She said: "Schools are open and it’s in a hybrid model because the Ministry of Health has advised that (the) preferred standard is three feet apart and they’ve given some indication that if you don’t do the preferred standard, you can bring everyone in, but I don’t know how we can advocate something that’s the preferred standard.
“We’re in dialogue with the minister of health to when we can get our children in normal numbers in the classroom, but the issue right now is that they have advised the preferred health standard is the three feet distancing and so that has hampered us.
“I’m in active dialogue. I spoke to him yesterday; I spoke to him the day before. I spoke to him the day before that to see when they see a green light to allow children 100 percent."
The Englerston MP added: "Exams are on target” and she saw the schedule posted in her ministry’s foyer. However, there are some other challenges, adding it is “not business as usual”.
“We’re creating a number (of) interventions,” she said. “We’re looking at the high school diploma in terms of how that’s been affected by the pandemic and what modalities can be introduced where the pandemic interfered with meeting certain things. We’re also looking at learning loss and all these things. So, we’re not in 100 percent normalcy yet, but we’re pretty far advanced."
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Comments
tribanon 2 years, 6 months ago
ZZZZZzzzzzz......
sheeprunner12 2 years, 6 months ago
Bars full, hotels full, malls full, churches full ....... All you can say is this is a plan to dumb down these kids beyond rehabilitation. A cruel joke by our leaders
Why do exams in June, when most NP public school kids have not been actively engaged in school for more than 2 days per week? And please don't use virtual school as justification for this fiasco.
Who is going to speak up for these lost souls? Where are the PTAs? They should be marching daily.
John 2 years, 6 months ago
Why are smaller-population family islands that haw few visitors still required to wear masks? Why you can’t schools anf most of life on these islands return to normal? Most of our tourists population is coming from areas where there are new surges and new variants. Why isn’t the Minister/Ministry of health warning or advising Bahamians who come on n contact with these visitors to continue to wear protect themselves: wear masks, social distance and sanitize. And those Bahamians who travel outside the country and especially to these areas with increasing Covid cases. Mind that everything you bring back is not in your suitcase.
DDK 2 years, 6 months ago
😆😆😆
JokeyJack 2 years, 6 months ago
How can she be thinking of schools going back to normal when just since the schools partially opened in January over 3970 students have dropped dead from Covid across the Bahamas? That's what I heard someone saying in a food store the other day. 2970 precious children dead, even though 1963 of them were wearing their masks and 1329 were double masked.
The only solution is to lock children away at home forever. They should have ankle monitors like prisoners - the germ infested little devils.
ohdrap4 2 years, 6 months ago
This is misinformation. Covid goes on be ause JokeyJack is unvaxxeed and he creates new variants and exhales between food store aisles.
JokeyJack 2 years, 6 months ago
Really???? Well then why don't you enlighten us with facfs??? How many school children have died from Covid since Feb 1sf???
sheeprunner12 2 years, 6 months ago
This is the kind of comment that should be taken down
JokeyJack 2 years, 6 months ago
Yes, free speech is indeed a problem for dictators. That's why the Feds are trying to silence Musk now with fake investigations, the timing is very suspect.
bahamianson 2 years, 6 months ago
At this time we should consider part time in the class room and the other part of the day at home. I enjoy the lack of traffic and the ease of getting around. Keep the children at home. We are going paperless, electric, cashless, and now we should be the leaders in this region and computerize the educational system. Everything is the computer, so what is the problem?
JokeyJack 2 years, 6 months ago
I agree. I have no problem with children being prisoners as long as i can drive on traffic free roads. Good idea. We should even considers sending all children to a cay on Ragged Island.
bahamianson 2 years, 6 months ago
You funny. Lol. Thank you for that.
JokeyJack 2 years, 6 months ago
I is jokey boi.
John 2 years, 6 months ago
So is Joe Biden and the CDC and the Fauci clown, powerless to overrule the judge who says people no longer have to wear masks? Close to 30 states in the US are seeing surges and new variants. How do cruise ships handle passengers who test positive for Covid? They secretly fly them back to their home destination. So if they board a flight and no one is wearing masks..,
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