The Loss : We call it Edudemic!!

Alarming. We call the call. No education. No Schooling?

Well, the priority is low to spectrum. The teachers find the classrooms empty. The children are away from connecting. The learning is diminishing to zero!

What are we up to? Surprisingly the defined approach towards learning is taken a back seat to the segment which relates to once a priority. The activation desires the ready reckoner to manage education by the concerned, including the Government. In India, we aim at approaching comfort and safety with the closure of schools. On that note, the segment lies with managing the outcome towards many other excuses that relate to elections or more.

How do I, as an educator, manage that? Can online learning be the ultimate solution to tasks? Not so, surprisingly so.

Teachers and the parents need to gel together to prioritise learning with the conjunction towards learning as a prime approach rather than grasp the notion of closure of schools with the spectrum towards safety. Bells are ringing in countries where we have a heavy load of cases. But for sure, taking a measure like this is like closing the chapters of learning for the future workforce for some time. This may lead to a bleak future for the nation in particular. I stand firm to undertake as a priority.

My personal experience as a head of school highlights a novel spectrum to route this significance for the cause of quality education. The ratio is bleak towards the unaware specified interest of the students via the online or offline learning segment. The educators need a preface to the exact detail and relate at large numbers via brainstorming to narrate the strategies to follow up in directive for a better cause. The system needs to be re-framed of how best to deliver the knowledge of the new age and the attention to live with corona as a striker for the new page for living and learning periodically.

The concern remains unanswered.

Is it a pandemic scarier or the Edudemic?

The answer lies in our heads, not the search via the laptops.

Dr Dheeraj Mehrotra, Principal, Kunwar's Global School, Lucknow

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