As Zambia and the rest of the World battles with the Coronavirus outbreak, which has resulted into an indefinite closure of schools, parents have been advised to turn their homes into schools and help their children catch up with studies during the closure period.
National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has told the Zambian Business Times – ZBT in a statement on March 25, 2020, that parents should proactively seek to keep the school going children actively learning and change from the sad narrative which has existed that Zambian parents do not have time for their school going children.
NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa said it is high time Zambians began to buy more reading books and subscribing to online learning resources for their children than anything else.
“We want to see Zambian parents taking maximum interest in academic lives of their own children. Zambia shall never provide quality education if parents will shy away doing their part, they have a big and important role to play in education”, he said.
Chansa further said that it would be academically dangerous for any school going child to relax on studies during this indefinite closure period as the coronavirus will eventually vanish but exams will need to be written.
“Zambias future development heavily depends on young ones currently in schools and their good academic and learning inputs today, will pay off later at personal and national levels”, Chanda told ZBT.
Lastly but cardinal, NAQEZ strongly appeals to all learners in the country to help in the struggle against Coronavirus by staying away from crowds and washing their hands thoroughly with soap. We want all of them to go back to their respective schools in good health whenever the war against this disease will be over,’’ said Chansa.
