When all schools in about 192 countries abruptly shuttered in March 2020, “ousting” nearly 1.6 billion students from education, it chalked a historic milestone in education, globally. Some countries used this historic opportunity to re-design curricula and teaching methodologies to suit the time. This is Sri LankaThe entire student (4.3 million) and teacher (241,000) populations have been facing crisis after crisis since March 2020. With school closure, less than 10% of students had the ability to connect to real-time face-to-face education, online. Give the teachers their rightful due and prevent this crisis from becoming a humanitarian catastrophe.

Source: The Nation August 08, 2021 18:56 UTC