Concerns over safety in schools

SOME teachers and students in Morobe’s Nawaeb felt unsafe when classes resumed for the second term on Monday.
“We do not have enough personal protection equipment (PPE) for the 31 teachers and more than 1,000 students,” Situm Primary School head teacher John Gematang said.
“Classes started with both teachers and students with fear for the Covid-19 and working out how they can maintain safe distance from one another.”
Gematang said the Covid-19 had made teaching and learning in the classrooms very chaotic and extremely difficult for students to concentrate on their lessons.
“We do not have enough funds to spend on PPEs.
“There are also other essential areas that we have to look into to get the school going.”
He made the remarks when Nawaeb development authority chairman and MP Kennedy Wenge on Monday presented masks, temperature guns and hand sanitisers to Situm and Hobu primary schools and Nawaeb High School.
Wenge said since schools nationwide were forced to go into extra weeks study break in the first term due to the Covid-19 surge, “it is better that students and teachers are adequately protected this term”.