{"id":456,"date":"2014-03-05T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/parents-aghast-over-govt-decision-of-school-reopening\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:07:00","slug":"parents-aghast-over-govt-decision-of-school-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Parents aghast over govt. decision of school reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Our children continue to shiver in schools<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> Cornering state authorities over the dearth of heating arrangements in primary and middle schools, scores of parents across valley&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;questioned the timing of the reopening of primary level schools.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">According to the reports received by KNS, Kashmir valley witnessed moderate snowfall in some areas while as the rains affected life at large in state\u2019s summer capital. The scenes of children waiting for their school buses during the early morning hours were witnessed everywhere with the parents aghast over the decision of the authorities taken vis-\u00e0-vis re-opening of the schools after the winter vacations.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Parents accused that due to the persistent bad weather and cold conditions, the decision of the authorities on non-extension of the winter break was sans \u2018logic\u2019 and \u2018anarchic\u2019 as well. \u201cWe fail to understand that when the government knows that it lacks the proper heating system in schools- why it compelled our little children to join schools during this harsh winter,\u201d said Bilal Ahmad a sonawar resident.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Another parent stated that the health of their children is expected to get badly affected as they continue to shiver in schools where heating arrangements remain a distant dream. \u201cHow can they study when their hands tremble due to chilling cold. See the temperature and tell me how can a 8 year kid read and write in school?\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Parents also accused that the extension of two days in winter break was done on the behest of bureaucrats whose children were outside the station and the time was given to them to reach valley. Otherwise this two days break was \u2018illogical, said parents, while demanding immediate decision over the extension on vacations if the weather conditions remain unchanged.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">KNS made repeated attempts to contact director school education Mir Tariq Ali over the issue but his phone continues to remain switched off.&nbsp;(KNS)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our children continue to shiver in schools Srinagar: Cornering state authorities over the dearth of heating arrangements in primary and middle schools, scores of parents across valley&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;questioned the timing of the reopening of primary level schools. According to the reports received by KNS, Kashmir valley witnessed moderate snowfall in some areas while as the rains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}