Online classes: A time to re-think

Online classes: A time to re-think

Hey kids get up!

It’s time for your school. Kids get up lazily and loiter around the house and mom is just after them to make them hurry up for their daily chores.

And at last the time has come and the level of chaos rises up suddenly with the entry of maid and a call for breakfast from father and other elders of the house. Still mom preferred to get after the children to  settle them down, hurry up,  hurry up, you are getting late mam will mark you absent sit down. And the kids finally got settled on a table chair without any book or copy or pencil.

With a feeling of winning the first round of battle mom entered the kitchen and after about half an hour a sudden call from the room came mom signal is weak I’m leaving the meeting. Oh again a panic  attack and mom came in to action what happened how it happened suddenly a call from another room from the daughter “Oh mom my signal is also missing and our teacher has said that she will mark us absent if we log out”; and she started crying. Oh God what to do? In the meanwhile, a big smile appeared on the face of the son that wow now mom is busy with sister and net issues so I have the time to play game on mobile which he is having in his hand to attend the class.

Ah! What a mess how to manage? But still fighter moms somehow manage to handle the diverse issues and once again the class started.

After completing the daily chores mom came to sit near the children to see what they are studying and then she noticed that Oh! The lectures on technical subjects like physics and maths are being attended as casual story telling session. After having a loud conversation with the child, mom somehow managed to convince that writing down the lecture is very important and you must attend the class with a copy and pen. But this new generation, equipped with technology and brain, declared that mom your technique is old fashioned and I will turn on the subtitle and will take the screenshot of it for notes.

Filled with a feeling of amusement and confusion mom surrenders in front of online classes and their tech-wizard students. She sits and thinks that:

1)      Where these online classes are taking us to?

2)      Are they beneficial?

3)       Are they essential for children of such tender ages who are in primary and junior school?

4)       Being online to attend classes for 6 hours continuously and then doing homework online again, is this genuine, is this right?

5)      Is this the compensation we are paying to get our children admitted in top private schools?

6)      Aren’t the schools are playing with the health of the children?

But we are bound to decide education or no education. If you refuse to make your child attend the online classes you will be out of the school and if yes you have to bear the consequences related to health. If you decide to opt out of online classes the classmates of your child will continue and they will be promoted and next year when the things will normalize by God’s grace your child will be treated as a defaulter in the class. So, we are bound to decide not between right and wrong but between wrong and less wrong.