Chennai: The Commissioner of School Education in Tamilnadu has instructed all Chief Educational Officers to make sure that no child is compelled to attend the online classes.
Attendance is not mandatory for online classes in the State and assignments given to children during such classes will not be part of their final performance evaluation, said the department of school education in an order.
The Commissioner of School Education, Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan, has announced that no school would compel the students to attend the online classes.
Further he said, the staff shouldn’t consider the attendance of the students for internal grading and also the schools barred the to conduct online assessments. He also directed the schools to appoint an special education councellor to monitor the online sessions.
According to the order, students who missed these classes will be taught when schools reopen and brought on a par with others. No student must be compelled to attend these classes, and terms like ‘shall, should, must, compulsory, will be counted in attendance, grades/marks/evaluation is based on this, etc.’ should not be used by teachers.