With the continued extension of the closure of schools and all education institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and parents alike are getting worried that tweny tweny might be a dead year for them.
This is because schools were shut down in March which was the first term for secondary and primary schools, and they remain closed well into the second term with no date of reopening in sight yet.
However, Alex Kakooza, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports has clarified that the ministry is not planning to have tweny tweny as a dead year. Actually, they are preparing for the reopening of schools.
“We are not planning on having a dead year. As you are aware, when we closed schools and universities, we were not prepared for that. The biggest issue was how to keep the learners engaged. We came up with different options for learners to revise through TVs, radios, and printed materials,” Kakooza said, according to The Observer.
Kakooza said the reading material does not have any new material learners had not yet covered which means that “The Ministry is still preparing for the reopening of schools” and that it is just a question of when.
Kakooza said that the Ministry of Education is waiting to have Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place and then schools will be reopened following those procedures.
He added that there is need for schools to be reopened because they don’t want to have the education system clogged as finalists need to go to the next level and interns need to be passed out to join their professions like in the medical field to assist in the fight against COVID-19.