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THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF COVID-19 TO OUR EDUCATION

Consider yourself a third-grade student. You've never used Zoom before, and your teacher is having
trouble sharing her screen due to a slow internet connection. You're trying to learn multiplication and
division at the same time.

Under these circumstances, you would most likely struggle to learn, let alone retain the information.
Because they are such important skills, your total foundation in those areas suffers significantly.

Some parts of education will return to normalcy with the commencement of the 2021-22 school year,
including the resumption of in-person classes and the return of students to campuses around the
country. Despite this, the pandemic's beneficial and negative effects on education will last for years to
come, particularly for pupils in primary school.

The rise of virtual classrooms, which enable students’ greater freedom, is one benefit of the epidemic.
They eliminate the need to physically attend class because they can be accessible from practically
anywhere with an internet connection. This is especially beneficial for older students, such as high
school students, who have other obligations or live a long distance from school.

Online courses, unlike their in-person equivalents, allow students to work at their own pace, thus
instead of reading the book during class, they can do so during their own time. This is particularly
advantageous for students who need to work or who are simply not in the mood to do an assignment at
a specific time.

Regardless of your feelings towards virtual classes, having a larger number of options is advantageous to
everyone. Especially since many teachers would now be familiar with online resources such as Zoom,
there should be less technical concerns.

Other effects of the pandemic on education, on the other hand, are less favorable. Due to the lower
quality of instruction in online classrooms during the early days of the epidemic, some students may
have fallen behind in their studies, which was aggravated by socioeconomic considerations.

During the pandemic, no kids dropped further behind than those who were poor. According to a study,
9th graders from the poorest areas have a 25% worse "post-educational earning potential," which
means their future earnings will be lower. Even if the pandemic was followed by three years of normal
schooling, this drop is the result of a single year of school closures during the pandemic.

One of the most significant losses suffered by poor students during online school, according to the
study, was the opportunity to engage with peers from other socioeconomic backgrounds.

We all recall the early days of the epidemic, when teachers and professors struggled to integrate Zoom
into their classrooms and attempts to elicit conversation in breakout rooms. Educators who had lost just
as much desire to teach as students had to learn fully waived any assignments.

At the time, we were relieved that assignments seemed to no longer mattered, and that we could be
assessed on a pass/fail basis, obliterating any potential stain on our academic records. It did, however,
mean that many students may not have learnt what they truly needed.
For college students, online study means not having to learn content particular to their major. Children
in primary school, on the other hand, lost basic math and reading skills.

We don't know how the epidemic will affect education in the future, but it's critical that we keep
fairness in mind. Even if we've improved our ability to educate our pupils since 2020, the pandemic's
effects on our learning will last for years.

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