Provide risk allowance
SINCE schools will reopen on May 4, teachers deserve to be paid risk allowances as they are more vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus.
What measures are in place for social distancing when the students population is too many in each class?
How effective are the sanitising facilities that will cater for the student population plus teachers?
What personal protective equipment will be available for the teachers to use when teaching?
Teachers won’t know the whereabouts of the students after classes and during weekends. The Education Department should consider paying risk allowances.
Teachers are the ones that will interact with students, parents and stakeholders which is a risky situation.
C Tinai,
Lufa District
5 comments
Don’t ask for allowances in such time but think about how you can help prevent covid-19
Waste of money, disregard the opening of schools then.
Let the school year begin next year, put the teachers out of payroll for the rest of the year.
Too many opportunists.
Our schools are just not equipped to handle this crises. The schooling year should be put on hold and possibly suspended until there is a vaccine avalible. If there is a student with positive case in school no one would be able to contain it from spreading.
Covid19 does not discriminate, the risk applies to both teachers and students. Not a good idea to ask for risk allowance when both teachers and students are at the same risk of catching corona.
Feel for the country during this trying times and be adaptive to the “New Normal”.
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