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'The answer came to me outside of the four walls of the school.' NewSchool Opinion
In 2020, my academic life took a sudden detour. The COVID-19 pandemic broke out and it impacted my drive to study. The menial task of writing papers became laborious. My schoolwork piled up. I tried everything I could to salvage it, but my efforts were in vain. I always ended up shooting myself in the foot.
Several of the students I met with in the communities were among those who opted to drop out of school and risk a graduation delay as the pandemic compounded the long-standing education divide they had been experiencing prior to 2020. While the rich were able to adjust to it, the poor were left to figure things out on their own. They failed to keep up with the new modes of learning, particularly the online format, because they lacked the technological essentials for it.
I was anxious the entire time about whether or not I would make it in time for graduation. My newfound responsibilities made it challenging for me to go back to school. But the worry was far greater for the students in low-income households who had committed to this road indefinitely. The longer they were gone from school, the less likely they were to return, resulting in missed learning opportunities.
It wasn’t only my graduation that was at stake. It was also the right of millions of students to receive quality education amid the pandemic. Suffice to say, the problem was beyond personal. It was systemic as it was public.
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