List of Holidays for Schools stay the same while Eid celebration brings about a change in the calendar of the working community this monsoon. That’s right. The shift of the Eid to Thursday has not deprived the ‘babus’ of the mid-week holiday but has instead given another off-day making it two days in a row! However, though Bank branches, both public and private are to remain closed for two whole days, the schoolchildren seem to be the ones who are deprived of this facility. School authorities have been seen on Tuesday evening, taking to Facebook, SMS and Whatsapp along with other social media and electronic media help to inform parents and students that the Eid holiday is shifted from Wednesday to Thursday.
La Martiniere, St. James’, Calcutta Boys’, Calcutta Girls’, Heritage School, Calcutta International School, South City & Apeejay School are few of the schools which are to remain open on Wednesday. However, the situation isn’t grim for all school kids. A few prominent schools such as Modern High, South Point, Mahadevi Birla World Academy and DPS Megacity have given both days holiday to the students and staff. However, the question of the hour is for schools like DPS Ruby Park and the likes who have decided to keep the school open on Thursday and keeping the pre decided holiday intact is whether the parents will let their ward attend classes on Thursday or not. To tackle the situation, a few schools such as Future Foundation are being lenient on the students as they say, the students absence on Thursday, will be excused as the school decides to keep their holiday calendar intact and declare Wednesday as holiday.
The reason behind many schools curbing the government approved two-day holiday, as cited by many authorities, is the fact that already a lot of classes have been wasted due to the unusually long summer vacation this year and thereby there is already added pressure of finishing of the syllabus, amidst which, a mid-week extension of holidays doesn’t seem fit. While some schools such as Calcutta Girls’ had already pre announced that the Eid holiday date is floating and will be confirmed the day before the festival, a few others such as Calcutta Boys’ have simply relocated the holiday in order to maintain their 220 working day scheme, says Raja Mcgee, principal of the school.
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