We Are In This Together

 

Students, their parents, and educators around the world are feeling the extraordinary ripple effect of the novel coronavirus as schools are shutting down and quarantine methods are being ordered to cope with the global pandemic. While governments and health officials are doing their best slowing down the outbreak, global education systems are collaborating to collectively respond and provide quality education for all during these difficult times.

The crisis is exacerbating pre-existing education disparities by reducing the opportunities for many of the most vulnerable children, youth, and adults to continue their learning. The pandemic has pushed the world into the deepest global recession in living memory which will have lasting effects on economies and public finances. The massive efforts made in a short time to respond to the shocks to education systems remind us that change is possible. We should seize the opportunity to find new ways to address the learning crisis and bring about a set of solutions previously considered difficult or impossible to implement. However, the mission of all education systems is the same. It is to overcome the learning crisis we were already living and respond to the pandemic we are all facing. The challenge today is to reduce as much as possible the negative impact this pandemic will have on learning and schooling and build on this experience to get back on a path of faster improvement in learning. As education systems cope with this crisis, they must also be thinking of how they can recover stronger, with a renewed sense of responsibility of all actors and with a better understanding and sense of urgency of the need to close the gap in opportunities and assuring that all children have the same chances for a quality education.

The education community should learn from each other about the ways of providing quality education that will help students thrive in a better world. Students like me should also be focusing on being a responsible person and a person with patience and understanding. Everyone should also be helping each other to provide quality education even in these difficult times. Let's fight for a better quality education.

References:

https://hundred.org/en/collections/quality-education-for-all-during-coronavirus

https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/08/sg_policy_brief_covid-19_and_education_august_2020.pdf

https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/educational-challenges-and-opportunities-covid-19-pandemic

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