So Vasant Bunwaree and Navin Ramgoolam finally took a wise decision to temporarily close down schools. However now that this is achieved, the responsibility to make this decision work lies with the students and parents! Boycott private tuitions is the only way to do this and I’ll explain why.
On the last two articles explaining why the government must temporarily close down schools, we saw many parents as well as students who commented and showed their concern about this issue. So great now Vasant gave us about 10 days to not attend school, what do you do? Attend private tuitions in your garage nest?
To start it will be good for you all to know why the government closed down school and why for about 10 days (even if a longer period would have made more sense). The h1n1 virus propagates very easily in breath droplets through the air. So when someone cough, sneeze or even block his cough using his hand and then later touch you, you can get infected.
Closing down school for 10 days is in fact for a scientific test to evaluate how the closing down of school and reducing contact among students can decrease the virus propagation! Ok till now? So the aim is to limit contact among crowds to see what effect it does. Now if the government sees that the propagation of the virus has slowed down by closing schools, this will show that our schools and transport system is the risky region.
Also in these 10 days, the government is expected to set up all its protocols to handle any new cases better and also better equip itself with proper medications. One funny side however is that I heard about “désinfection des nos écoles pour éviter la propagation du virus A H1N1”
Just a note to the government, this step will not do much as knowing how certain students are at time irresponsible while coughing, the physical state of school infrastructure will be the same again in one week.
So why you must not attend private tuitions?
Private tuitions is more dangerous for you! Private tuitions is the place where your chance of being infected by the h1n1 virus is more!! Normally we all know that teachers give private tuitions is really small rooms (often the garage) where between 20 to 50 students are enclosed in the damn room.
Also students at private tuitions tend to sit very close to each other. By close I mean VERY close! So if the government close school and YOU students will like blind fools attend private tuitions thinking that you are safe, then you are completely wrong!
So now parents need to be responsible and use their mind. Do not send your child to private tuitions for this one week so that the test that the Government is doing is fruitful and we succesfully show them that we Mauritians were right. I also feel that any RESPONSIBLE private tuition teacher will not be giving tuitions this week unless he is responsible only for the money!
This does not mean that private tuition teachers must stop the work. They can give hand outs and homework by email or send photocopies but the mass grouping of students must be avoided.
So parents, students and teachers take your precaution and be responsible, else don’t come to blame the government now if the kids are infected during this one week.
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nilou
ena parent negligent they dont care for there kid and send them to tuition
Bruno
http://www.lemauricien.org/weekend/090823/so.htm#11
Un enseignant de leçons privées menace Week-End
Contacté pour une déclaration, il s’emporte: “Ekrir ki mo ti donn léson… taler VOH vinn ar ou!”
Durant notre reportage hier, nous avons appris que des enseignants du primaire avaient, malgré l’appel lancé par le ministre de l’Education soutenu par les syndicats du secteur pour annuler les cours privés en cette période d’épidémie de grippe A, maintenaient ceux-ci. Contacté au téléphone-après nos recherches et confirmations auprès de nos sources-pour une déclaration à propos de son choix de maintenir les leçons particulières, un enseignant devait brandir le nom de la Voice of Hindu pour proférer des menaces à l’encontre de Week-End. Après avoir, dans un premier temps, nier le fait d’avoir reçu de nombreux élèves pour des cours privés, cet enseignant devait nous relancer, plus tard, en haussant le ton cette fois: “Mo konn Navin Ramgoolam, mo konn minis lédikasyon, ékrir ki vrémen mo éna 80 zélev ki vinn pran léson kot mwa, ki zordi (ndlr: hier) zis sink pann vini. Ekrir ki mo ti donn léson… taler VOH vinn ar ou!” Nous laissons le soin à nos lecteurs, dont de nombreux enseignants de faire leur conclusion sur un pédagogue qui façonne quotidiennement les adultes de demain…
nilou
@Bruno, some prof are money minded, zot more pou kas b aster zot pou mort avec h1n1 virus and they will kill studenr
Kurt Avish
I think his name or a hint where he give tuitions or subject would have been better for that money mongrel! I was and is and will always be against private tuitions. Its a stigma. Period.
Vaiizard
One thing I cant understand why is the gov taking amateurism decision?
Its good that the schools are closed. But some days ago the PM said its useless to close schools! He is contradicting himself.
I wonder what kinda homework the student got to do. Because when i was in college all the homework i used to get was in past papers. The teacher will just say do page.. or past exam paper of year…. For the parents who have gone to fetch the hw of their kids at school they can be surprised to get a “hw” with only page and question numbers written on it. The minister of education, is he even aware how teachers work? or how classes are done? The teachers cant be blame either the system itself is like this. Moreover they didnt had enough time to prepare decent hw.
Wow the students must be thrilled getting one week of homework! That’s sarcasm from the government part. On the other hand i cant understand the attitude of the parents…what would they do if the country was hit by a cyclone. The same applies for the teachers, many of them are still giving tuition. Its not the end of the world to miss a week of school or tuition.
i talked to my neighbor this morning. Yesterday she went to collect her son’s hw at school who is in std 4. She was expecting copies or things like that just to take home.. But when she reached school she was surprise to see that the parents were sitting on small chairs and desks copying the hw put on the blackboard. XD (ps i dont know if it was the case for all primary school). Well you can guess how much time it will take for someone who is not used to write to note down a blackboard full of hw. Poor her she was in a hurry to go to the market but her son’s hw was first.
I can’t understand the ministry of education or the schools administrations What will it cost to make copies of the hw? Their are many parents who are illiterate and when they went to collect the hw we can guessed how embarassed they was. What did they answer to their kids? Sorry could not bring you hw coz i cant write what was their on the blackboard.
Aksh92
Ya i’ve heard dat chikungunya is back in La Reunion…
Bruno
“Private tuitions is the place where your chance of being infected by the h1n1 virus is more!!” :S I understood what you meant but :S I would have said:
The odds of catching the H1N1 virus in private tuitions are higher than the chance of getting it at school
Bon seriously now: My feeling is that it would be better to catch the bug now it is weak, rather than delay the inevitable. You will catch it at some point in time, coz the virus is here for 4 years. Better catch it now, before it mutates into something more nasty. Donc bad decision to close down school. Sinon, ki ou content ou pas, dimoun pou mort ek li. This is the cruel law of evolution: the fittest survive, and the weakest die. But in the end, the race becomes stronger. It’s inhuman and cruel, but this is how life is.
.-= Bruno´s last blog ..The Mentalist =-.
Kurt Avish
Lol. Bruno I write these posts within minutes that i dnt even correct my mistakes and even the literal English. In fact my uncle was telling me something like this too lol that I write too fast but dnt work on the presentation…bon mo pa p fer competition anglais lol..what i want is just to share the message..si creole was google friendly mo ti pu ecrir en creol mem lol
But when I do guest post on other popular blog out there I do correct my english..ici li la li jst pu ki atleast mauricien comprend do. Pa grav mo corige li impe pu toi selment 
Now coming to what you said, the point that you mentioned is right too. But you know, who want to catch a disease even if in certain cases it can be an advantage? In fact I was reading that OMS is strongly against people doing h1n1 parties. I mean getting infected voluntarily just to be immune to it later on. Anyway what you said is a whole topic that could infact be discussed.