Minimum marks: learning support classes begin amid confusion in Kerala

The learning support programme for State school students from Classes V to IX who failed to secure 30% minimum marks in the annual examinations got under way in the State on Monday amid a lot of confusion.

Though the Director of General Education had issued a clarification late Sunday on the change in class timings to 7.30 a.m.-10.30 a.m. instead of the scheduled 9.30 a.m.- 12.30 p.m. in the wake of a Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights directive to ensure that the classes wound up at 10.30 a.m. before the daytime temperatures rose, teachers’ organisations were unhappy about it.