JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Abrief update from one of our Myanmar law students about the Military Council requiring private schools to meet in-person as COVID cases climb:

Private schools have been instructed not to allow students to study online but to teach in-person at school.

If you study online, you will not get the school attendance (AR) and you will not be allowed to take the exam. A teacher who owns a private school said that he was instructed to take AR exams only if he taught in-school.

There are more than 240 private basic education schools in Yangon Division, and at present, the percentage of high school enrollment is zero. Only 5% of secondary school students enroll, according to the private education sector.

The military council is trying to run its coup mechanism and seems to want to show that it is doing so. Teachers are not allowed to learn. Some teachers criticized.

Despite these efforts, they point out, the focus is on reopening the Kovis-19 Epidemic Prevention School without scrutinizing the rules.

In the past, Covid-19 protection regulations were enacted and strictly enforced for schools, but now the military council has ordered them to “open immediately.”

Yesterday (June 26), out of 5,555 Kovis-19 laboratories nationwide, 783 new cases were confirmed and eight died. More than 150,000 V-19 patients nationwide The death toll was estimated at 3,300, according to the military council health department.

In the current political climate, the military council does not provide full security guarantees, and parents of students during the fighting in Mandalay have lost their children and grandchildren. According to the teachers’ association, there were some cases where the daughters were taken away but the military did not return them and kept them at the school.

There are more than 3,200 private basic education schools in the country. According to the private education sector, there are more than 250,000 to 300,000 students.