bengaluru schools and academicians are happy with the chief ministers announcement on reopening institutions for grades 9 to 12 but say even primary classes need to be started on campuswe welcome the governments decision to reopen schools but reopening of primary classes should not be delayed the learning loss is huge said d shashi kumar secretary association of primary and secondary schools of karnataka the department should leave the mode of reopening alternate days and shift system to schools who can implement it depending on their student strength and infrastructure he added the expert committee formed by the government had suggested primary classes be started first virologists have made it clear that primary students are more immune to the virus moreover many primary schools have only a handful of students the government should consider elementary schools as nutrition and factors like child labour are major concerns in these age groups opined niranjanaradhya vp developmental educationistno time to wasteacademicians also pointed out that the government should not delay the reopening most high schools conducted sslc exams two weeks ago theyre sanitised and ready to be occupied whats the need to wait for another two weeks we dont know how long we can keep schools open before the next wave sets in we have no time to waste schools can ready the timetable in a day and get students back on campus said rishikesh bs faculty member azim premji university we welcome the governments decision the state should give permission to start campus classes from grade 6 so that schools can call each grade on one day classes should have started in june that way at least 90100 days of classes would have been conducted till date and that would have given enough time to evaluate students and prepare for next year said lokesh t president of recognised unaided private schools karnataka rajya shalabhivruddi and melustuvari samitigala samanvaya vedike also welcomed the decision but opined that primary classes should have reopened first