Schools Online
Gone modern by going online? As a child, I often heard white-haired elders proclaim that studying is the hardest job to do and further advise that one should do it with all seriousness and dedication when they were being given the opportunity. I would think as children we had just one job to do – study, so why not just do it well. Now I wonder if they could see into what is now the present for children. Stuck inside their houses, their eyes glued to the screens which till two summers ago everybody warned them against, children live their half-lives. I am merely talking about students studying up to grade 12 in Indian schools. I wonder how the society would have tackled it had Covid-19 come a few thousand years ago when students lived with and served their gurus in their ashrams to attain education. Online School or progressive learning needs an electronic device, a spot big enough to park your butt on, good net connectivity through wi-fi or data connection and somebo...