Abstract
The study was carried out to determine the extent parental educational levels predict return rate of pre-primary and primary pupils by parents as soon as the schools resume at the end or close to the end of coronavirus pandemic. The study which was carried in Port Harcourt, Nigeria adopted accidental sampling technique to sample 942 parents out of a population of 476,658 parents. Four research questions guided the study. The major instrument for the study was the Researchers made questionnaire titled “Return of children to school by parents amidst coronavirus pandemic”. The data generated was analyzed using simple percentage. Findings showed that parents whose educational levels were within non-completion of primary school education and Diploma certificates will return their children on the ground that schools can effectively administer hand washing by pupils while those with first degrees to the terminal degrees disagreed with the ability of schools to carry out a hand wash exercise. However, the parents generally agreed that the schools cannot maintain the required social distancing and administer frequent fluid intake to pupils as preventive measures and as a result would not return their children to schools. Based on these findings, the study among other things recommended thus: since some category of parents agree that the schools cannot enforce hand wash by children, NGO’S and public spirited individuals need to enlighten the schools on the need to take the business of hand wash serious; since the schools cannot maintain adequate spacing, the government and her agencies must urge the schools to operate two to three shifts so as to have adequate space and facilities that would enable them maintain the recommended social or physical distancing and that any school that will operate, must have a source of portable water confirmed by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Highlights
Coronavirus infection is the most devastating calamity on earth that has attracted the attention of all and sundry from all works of life
This study has revealed that the coronavirus (COVID-19) has no cure but measures such as frequent intake of fluid, adequate spacing in between people, hand washing and environmental hygiene are globally adopted to mitigate the effect as well as control the spread of the disease (WHO 2019, Adnan, Suliman, Abeer, Nadia &Rabee2019)
The agitation raised by those with lower level of education that the schools cannot effectively conduct effective hand wash among children may not completely be wished away. This is because some schools may still be operating in obscure and unacceptable places. This reminds any one that if education is conceived as a strong index for determining social stratification, one may see reasons why the finding of this study reveals that those with the lowest level of education may be found in the low social economic class who may send their children to schools that may not be equipped with basic facilities such as tap water, good toilet system, play grounds among others
Summary
Coronavirus infection is the most devastating calamity on earth that has attracted the attention of all and sundry from all works of life. The disease was first reported at the verge of. 2019, at Hunan market in Wuhan, China where sea foods and animals such as rabbits, frogs, snakes, marmots, birds and bats are sold. Initial manifestation was mistaken and managed as pneumonia and by the time the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified, a total of 44 persons were already affected by the virus (WHO, 2020). Medical observation shows that coronavirus symptomatically manifest as fever, cough, sore throat, headache, muscle pain, shortness of breath. David (2020) described it as an illness caused by novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV- 2).
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