Day One of “back-to-online” for schools was full of chaos with most schools giving a holiday to the students so the staff could work on a new plan for online mode. Educationists, however, fear that the move will be a major setback for students who had just started getting used to in-person classes. Schools met with a new set of challenges such as reworking the timetable, figuring out modes of assessment in view of the approaching exam season.

With online mode 2.0, there is still no clarity on whether teachers have to work from school or home, especially for teachers who teach Stds VIII to X as they will have to teach in both offline and online mode. Teachers from civic-run schools said it is their students who are likely to be most affected as there may be a drop in the number of students attending online classes due to lack of access.