As schools are looking to reopen for all stds from December 1 even amid the scare of the new Covid-19 variant, Mumbai parents have intensified their demand to reopen the pre-primary section as well and wrote another open letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday. The state Cabinet recently allowed reopening of schools for all stds which came as a relief to most parents. This, however, is not applicable to the pre-primary section, leaving parents of children aged three-five worried still.

“Our smallest children, who go to pre-primary, urgently need to go back to school. As per the Paediatric Task Force, they are not only the most immune to the virus, but even if they do contract [the disease], their recovery is the fastest. Most importantly, they are in their most formative years, and not being in school is causing serious distress as their learning is all sensory, through touch, feel, play and experience. They are absolutely not able to learn anything on a screen. They have already lost out on 21 months of this important learning and are suffering immensely,” stated the letter addressed to the CM.