Editor,
Due to the Covid-19 situation, schools and colleges have been shut for months. Learning has been like a rollercoaster ride for many students especially with the online mode of education. However, the government has given the heads of different institutions the option to decide on their reopening. I find this absolutely ridiculous on the government’s part.
While some institutions decided to reopen, some are still closed which means half the students are getting better education through offline mode while students of those institutions which are still closed continue to have difficulties learning everything online.
Many students are frustrated with the decision of the government and with their schools. I, for one, am quite disappointed because my school has still not reopened. Yes online classes are held but it is not as productive as offline classes.
I often wonder if my classmates and I are lagging behind because every day I see students of other institutions going to their campuses, getting the proper form of education while some of us struggle due to online classes.
To the heads of institutions, please try to find means of holding offline classes for all streams whether Science or Commerce or Humanities/Arts because not only students of the Science stream are important and require the offline mode of learning. Commerce and Humanities streams are just as important.
Finally, I request the teachers to stop assuming that we don’t want to sit for their classes so we lie about having network issues. Not all of us lie, we really face connectivity problems and yes, we get stressed which severely affects our mental health when we miss classes due to our inability to control the network.
