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'Schools Must Reopen For Children's Mental Wellbeing, To Narrow Digital Learning Gap'


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Dr Banerji, where do we Indians stand today in our approach to schools? Is the closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic exposing a larger problem, in that we don t even feel the need for children to go to school, because it s the exams that matter?
RB: We have spent a whole year trying out various things. And I think as a country, as families and as individuals, we ve been waiting for a kind of golden moment when suddenly [the pandemic] will be over and the schools will open. I think now at every level, we realise that that is not how it is going to happen. There are going to be stages in this whole process. There may be an on and off [of Covid-19 cases] and therefore we need a flexible response to the eventualities we ve seen. There is a digital divide, but we had lots of divides before as well. This digital divide has just fallen clearly on the divides that already existed and may have made some of them worse. But we shouldn t forget that, even pr ....

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