The announcement by the president to close schools was a political decision and it should not have come to this. If the ministry of education had been decisive from the beginning and really took to heart the science of the matter and the complexity of our society, it would have played a wait-and-see game. Instead it sent our children to school and then changed its mind, which has been enormously disruptive for all concerned.
The crisis has also laid bare the inequalities in our schools. Some schools could adapt to an online situation or try to make up the work. Other schools just couldn’t because they have an infrastructural backlog, apart from having no access to any kind of digital platforms. Fatigue and frustration have set in, however. And I don’t know if we are as able to spark that conversation as we were four months ago. I feel as if we have missed the boat with innovation in this period.
There is a role for non-governmental organisations, community halls, churches and the department of education to come up with other ways of keeping children fed and safe while their parents are at work, rather than herding them into classrooms with teachers who are over 55 years and living with comorbidities.
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