The classroom is more than just a space for textbooks and grading Bhaswati Chakravorty | | Published 28.05.21, 01:24 AM
The mayor of New York City, with an eye on the winding down of the pandemic, has announced that teachers and children shall come back to school in September, the beginning of the new school year. He found online teaching to be distinctly inferior to classroom teaching. Besides, underprivileged families, among many of whom Covid-19 took a heavier toll, have found it difficult to give children regular access to remote learning. In such cases it has proved disastrous, particularly for pupils with disabilities. This widened the education gap, according to the mayor as well as the governor of New York, because online learning worked well only for better-off households, while others had to pay a heavy price.
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Interfaith couples talk about lived experiences From using both surnames to none, parents have also kept religion column blank while admitting their kids to school
They left the religion column blank while admitting their kids to school. Their daughter uses both their surnames. Another couple did not give any surname to their daughter.
Two Hindu-Muslim couples spoke about their lived experiences at an online discussion on December 23. They said they did not want their children to grow up as people belonging to any particular religion and that their marriage and living together bore testimonies that love was bigger than the boundaries set by dogmatic religionists.