“I am so happy that school opening because one more day with these children and I don’t know how I would make it out. I know it will not be easy because now you have to think about packing lunch bag and waking up early, but look let these children go back to school,” a sister told me recently.
Tomorrow, school doors will officially reopen and while there will be mostly happy parents I am not sure about how children feel about going back to the classrooms. I am also not sure how teachers feel. (I see many of them shopping for their classrooms and some look eager.) Apart from the fact that many of them are not happy with the signed agreement between their union and the Ministry of Education, some say they are dreading the daily struggle they have with some of the children they teach.
I spoke to a few teachers, parents and children as the opening day of the first term of the new school year drew near and below are some of their comments.