With school closure, less than 10% of students had the ability to connect to real-time face-to-face education, online. The education crisis has now reached catastrophic proportions, since for over 18 months no proper school education has been in place. These have been referred to as “failed improvisations of pandemic education”. We are “cultivating” an under-educated/uneducated class of children, those who have been deprived of long-term school education and peer interaction. It is likely that this pandemic will leave us with nothing short of an epidemic of educational poverty.

Source: The Nation September 12, 2021 18:45 UTC