If the reopening of schools has been postponed considering the alarming conditions, even teachers should not be forced to come to school, city teachers have demanded, fearing COVID-19 infection. They have written to the state government about their increasing concerns with mandatory physical attendance in schools.

Even as phase-wise school reopening has started in Maharashtra from the last week of November, in Mumbai and surrounding districts, schools are still shut considering the high number of COVID-19 patients. But while schools are closed for students, teaching and non-teaching staff were supposed to record physical attendance at least thrice a week. Now when schools in many other parts of the state have been closing due to increased concerns of infection spread; teachers’ organisations are demanding work from home. According to teachers, anyway the teaching-learning process is happening online.