Commentary: Pandemic offers San Antonio students valuable lessons on failure.

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The pandemic was difficult for students as they struggled with isolation and online...

Students and teachers grappled with bad wireless connections and Zoom mishaps, with weak motivation and organization, and with the absence of the relationships with one another that help everyone in the classroom want to succeed. Too often, these challenges meant that students could not learn.

We need one another to succeed in school. We need the knowledge and enthusiasm of other people to help us when we are too tired or confused to make sense of a new concept. We need the serendipitous connections of conversations in the hallway to address small problems before they get out of hand. Teachers are struggling with our own mental health. As we mastered new technologies and pandemic teaching strategies, we also became front-line mental health workers for our students.

 

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