Reopening Schools.

The Prime Minister's call to resume education across the country is one that we need to get behind, albeit only after making some foundational changes to the way we look at learning. The effects that the pandemic has had on education in this last academic year will undoubtedly have an influence on students, but how coronavirus impacts schools and curriculum in the next year and after greatly depends on how we react to the 'new normal'.

Humanity has learnt that there are ways to be productive without being physically present in a given environment, and education is no different. Mandatory attendance and full classrooms in schools is a practice that does not necessarily serve the purpose of imparting education, as evidenced by classrooms shifting to the digital world all over the world. Here at home, quite naturally there have been more issues of access, but this is not to say that online learning is not effective, if every student in question were to have access to technology.

There are other proposals that have...