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Valley schools closed since July 1 Worried parents taking their children outside Kashmir 8/22/2016 10:51:40 PM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Aug 22: As the education system has been badly affected in Kashmir due to ongoing unrest, worried parents are sending their children outside the valley to assume their studies in tutorials and alternate schools. Schools in Kashmir have remained closed since July 1 when the government ordered summer vacations and the authorities failed to reopen schools and colleges after the summer vacations when protests erupted over the killing of HM militant Burhan Wani and his two associates on July 8. Number of youth have come forward and started volunteer schools at religious institutions even at their homes for the school children. In old city Srinagar, many children go to alternate schools. "I don't know why our schools remain continuously shut," said Insha, a class 8th student of Srinagar. "But I am quite happy atleast I go to alternate school now so that I could complete my syllabus." Adil Ahmad, 12, a resident of Bemina too has been going to alternate school after his school remained shut for a month. "Our education has been badly affected but now a local youth teaches around 15 children in our colony," he said. Mohammad Amir teaches 13 children in his Mohalla in south Kashmir's Kulgam district. He said now that the schools were shut, it was the responsibility of educated youth like him to help young children in their academics. In search of a transitory respite from relentless curfews and restrictions in Kashmir, each day many locals leave Valley temporarily and fly to other places of India, either alone or along with their families. Most of them leave so that their children could study in private tutorials there. People across the valley said from the last 45 days after remaining confined inside their home the anxiety and stress levels have increased. "My 15-year-old son was mentally disturbed to see protests, killings and restrictions in the Valley. We preferred to take him to Jammu where he could go outside and study," Mohammad Amin, a resident of Sopore said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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