Residential schools, popularly referred to as boarding schools, are repeatedly regulated by District authorities and State governments, lumping them with directives meant for day schools. It is insensitive to subject boarding schools to sudden closures, changed timings and weather- related holidays, because the students in these schools are living in their home away from home.

Pandemics and social unrest may result in the sudden closure of schools but is it really practical or even possible to move a few hundred boys and girls, some as young as nine years old, from the school to their homes across India and overseas in a safe and escorted manner by road or rail? Nor is it feasible for working parents, especially single mothers, from distant destinations to pick up their wards and travel through troubled areas. In such situations, solutions are best found through dialogue between a parent and the Head of the school.

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