What Teachers and Students Learned in The Pandemic Year: Education Needs Emotional Connect
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Students: Madam, we can’t hear you properly.
. Connection lost
“Corona imposed circumstances taught me education is not transmission, said Uttam Srivastava, a businessman from Kanpur. Every day was an attempt for him to make a class a success and for parents like him - ensure the phone is charged, pray that connection is not lost and then the exposure to screen doesn’t adversely affect his son’s health.
Hardly two months into the lockdown, his son Dev who is in seventh grade in a private school started to complain about a burning sensation in his eyes and headache, “is this education?” he asked. “I don’t think so. It is not that school will never reopen. There is no shortcut to education, it is not a formality for me, so I was removed from online class,” he said.