United Nations estimates that globally more than 24 million school age children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the COVID-19 crisis. This is very alarming, kindly comment
Till there exists a very trustworthy solution to the pandemic , it's not a good idea to be back to school . With time solutions will be more trustworthy I am hopeful.
Yes, of course, I agree, certainly is possible because of this pandemic.
Panic was inflicted on the population. Covid-19 is less lethal than influenza. The crisis is the result of politics and not just a health issue.
Almost 10 million children may never return to school following Covid-19 lockdown. New report from Save the Children warns of 'unprecedented global education emergency'. World is facing a hidden education emergency. COVID-19 leaves estimated $77 billion gap in education spending for world's poorest children.
Yes, it is true. The present ongoing pandemic has badly affected education and health.
The situation is uncertain, the pandemic layers are in progress. The focus is on how to protect the generation if a similar but more dangerous situation happened again. It is not only education that is affected, every dimension of the school students has been affected by this evil 👺 Covid.
The situation is alarming, and therefore, teachers must play their role in preparing quality video lectures and remain in touch with students and their parents by following SOPs. Researchers must find new ways of teaching that cope with this and other future pandemic situations.
Yes, it is alarming. The most affected in this crisis is the developing countries where many families belong to marginalized sector.
The best solution during the pandemic is to help students, schools, teachers to teach online by giving them all the necessary tools.
Regards
I agree, in fact most of them have opted for some income generating activities and will be difficult to get them out of this. Female learners may also be forced into early marriages.
Shameemul Haque
Dear Professor,
Thank you for initiating this discussion on such an interesting topic.
The problem that you have talked about, always existed in developing nations of Africa and Asia. Now this pandemic has gobbled up so many jobs and businesses. Poverty is on the rise. So, possibility is that children will be send to work, to earn money. This clearly indicates a surge in drop out numbers of school children.
It will be challenging for the government to pull them back. The first investment will be that of 'time'. We have to be patient until normalcy is restored and these drop outs or a percentage of them, are brought back in schools.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Most of the families with limited income may not be able to send their kids back to school, because of , either loosing jobs decrease of income.
Education has been chaotic, but there is no need to withdraw, just re-organize.
Many students take turns going to school, so they are at home half the time.
I see my neighbour is in high school, but he is mostly at home playing basketball every day.
I am sure he is doing his homework, but all lab sessions both at school and university have been cancelled for the year. That does not sound very good.
Yes, there will be several long-term effects and disastrous footprints of Covid on the face of global education.
The pandemic is amplifying the global learning crisis that already existed: it could increase the percentage of primary school-age children in low- and middle-income countries living in learning poverty to 63 percent from 53 percent, and it puts this generation of students at risk of losing about $10 trillion in future life-time earnings, an amount equivalent to almost 10 percent of global GDP.
Source:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/12/02/pandemic-threatens-to-push-72-million-more-children-into-learning-poverty-world-bank-outlines-new-vision-to-ensure-that-every-child-learns-everywhere
Yes the pandemic has affected social, economical and cultural equilibrium of global communities.