Struggling Still
By: Angelica Marie I. Sanchez
As the semester is about to end, we come to realize that we are also doing this kind of set-up for more than a year. Experiencing the online class set-up in our freshmen year, is the second year of online classes still worth it?
Some of the students dropped out right after the first semester. Some even decided not to enroll knowing that the curriculum will change and everything will be done online.
Based on the statistics made by the Department of Education, the number of enrollees in the year 2020-2021 has dropped to 25.04 million students from 27.7million the past year (2019-2020). Many students chose to stop for this school year.
As per experience, this new set-up in our first year of college did not make a good impression. Learning became harder and all of us faced different challenges in academics or in our personal life.
School feels like we’re students 24/7, it just doesn’t stop. There were reports that students are actually dying as a result of the tension they are experiencing in today’s educational setting; some have committed suicide, and one student has not awoken from her sleep.
As the COVID issue is still rising, the need to pass and learning is exhausting. What will be the future of education in the following year knowing that students are not seeing online classes as learning anymore but something that they need to pass or survive?
Students deserve more consideration, as well as the teachers, professors, school administrators, and staff. They deserve a better education system and support from the government. This kind of issue could not be solved with numerous academic ease, but we need safe schooling for the following year.
The trending #LigtasNaBalikEskwela is actually acceptable and understandable. We really need more solutions to the pandemic to have a safer learning system. In reality, students and teachers could not just disregard what is happening in our country. We cannot separate our academics from our personal life because, in the first place, we cannot leave our houses for our safety.
The semester is about to end and even if we did adapt to the change, we still deserve more.
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