{"id":10144,"date":"2020-11-22T03:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2020-11-22T03:53:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:53:52","slug":"re-opening-of-schools-might-lead-to-another-cluster-trade-unions-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/re-opening-of-schools-might-lead-to-another-cluster-trade-unions-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-opening of schools might lead to another cluster: Trade Unions warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The re-opening of schools on Monday for the third term might cause a factor to emerge another massive COVID cluster in the country, Teachers-Principals Unions said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unions like the Principals\u2019 Services Union (PSU), Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) and Ceylon Teachers\u2019 Service Union (CTSU) raised this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They told Daily Mirror that the sudden decision taken by the Education Ministry to re-open schools on Monday was not a prudent decision at this point of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Principals\u2019 Services Union President Sunil Premathilaka said no Government official discussed the matter with any of the Union members prior to the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStarting of schools except in isolated areas, especially in the Western Province (WP) will not help cover the school syllabus at all,\u201d he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Ceylon Teachers\u2019 Union (CTU) General Secretary Joseph Stalin said they were not against the ministry\u2019s decision, but there should be a proper programme before starting the schools because the third term school vacation would come in the first week of December, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Government should have re-opened the schools only for the students in grade 11, 12 and 13 and then, decide what should be done accordingly,\u201d Stalin added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The re-opening of schools on Monday for the third term might cause a factor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}