Online school during Coronavirus

Do you remember those boring online classes? The reason we had those online classes was because of one thing,Covid-19. Not only did we take Covid as a joke but we underestimated it. We thought that because, according to Trip.com, us LA people are 22 hours away from China traveling by plane. In 2020, after 100,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths, Corona was declared as a world pandemic.

After all that, everyone’s life changed. For example, back in 2020 we were all scared that we even had to stay home for years to stay safe and not get Covid. I had interviewed some AJMS students about what it was doing online school at home? Some answers I got is that depression started to happen back at home.”My dad was angry a lot after losing his job causing my mom to cry, Online school did not help either.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, a lot of kids felt alone and anxiety got worse. Even family problems have had an effect on some students. Due to being at home studying for hours while doing other things like taking care of their siblings or cleaning was causing stress. While having so much on their mind, it was hard focusing on school.

 The New York Times talks about how kids’ grades went down during the pandemic with online school. For example it states that the high school students who were failing were in danger of not making up time for their learning losses with a little left in their academic careers. We may not notice but this can affect most student’s futures with not enough education.

 School during one of the deadliest diseases just doesn’t make sense, it was exhausting. So many things going on in one’s mind. Students would conceive many new bad habits like sleeping more than usual or screen usage including the computers. Not a lot of communication to the real world was made; everything was technology. The things we learned on the internet could not compare the face to face learning environment. An AJMS student said, “It felt as if we lost so much time.”