Schools reopen with mixed success to COVID-19 learning environment

Schools reopen with mixed success to COVID-19 learning environment

AMMAN “” As schools reopened for the first time since their abrupt closure in March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, students, parents and teachers are preparing for a COVID-19 learning environment.

After weeks of speculation over an online or in-class learning system, public and private schools were ultimately given the green light to open for the first semester of the 2020/2021 academic year.

Some schools in Marka and Ashrafieh, two areas in Amman with dozens of confirmed coronavirus cases and isolated buildings, were not allowed to open, however. Schools in other hotspots such as certain neighbourhoods in Madaba and Ramtha also did not open.

According to a Prime Ministry statement made available to The Jordan Times, the reason behind the delayed opening for these schools was to "intensify testing efforts to identify