Education ministry: Schools reopen, but parents can choose to keep kids home if they are worried

PETALING JAYA (July 8): Parents can choose to keep their children at home if they are worried for their health, the Education Ministry clarified today.

Deputy director-general (school operation sector) Adzman Talib said parents can decide against sending their kids to school even as they reopen but an official letter must still be given to inform the school of such a decision, The Star reported today.

The Education Ministry decided last month that Years Five and Six pupils, Forms One to Four students, remove class students and Form Six Semester 1 students will resume normal face-to-face classes on July 15; while Years One to Four pupils will do so on July 22.

Adzman said as part of the SOPs in schools in the new normal, students with “compromised immunity or those who suffer from health complications such as asthma” have to keep their masks on constantly while in school.

“Teachers should also keep their masks on when teaching at a close proximity. However, it is not wrong if teachers were to pull their masks down when they are teaching in front of the class, ” he said during a webinar session on the ministry’s YouTube Channel EduwebTV yesterday.

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