The Pros and Cons of How Your Student is Being Educated During Covid

The pandemic caused many changes around the world. It changed how some people work, date, socialize and even how they learn. As many students returned back into school over the recent months, some have maintained an ‘at-home’ learning platform, while others participate in hybrid learning where students go into school only several days a week. Education is a ‘must’, but is one way of learning better than the other. Not really, since each approach has pro benefits as well as cons. Let’s take a look at each method and how it affects the kids as well as the parents.

Back to School

Going back to school caused significantly high levels of anxiety for many students. After being homebound for over two years, when kids got the call to go back into a building, surrounded by peers and teachers, it was understandable that stress was off the charts for some individuals.

The con of returning is that everyone is exposed to Covid on a daily basis. Letters, calls and emails were going out to parents about exposures within the first few hours of the school doors reopening. Not to mention another con: The need to wear a mask all day long.

However, there are several pros: No more troubles with technology, …well, at least without being able to show the teacher what the problem is. And this is, without a doubt, the biggest pro for most parents: Having the teacher, live and in person, be able to answer your child’s questions. Finally, another pro is probably the best pro of all: Human socializing. It is so unhealthy physically, mentally and emotionally to be antisocial.

Yes, some people are introverts, but losing all human contact can be detrimental to your health.

It’s Hybrid

Hybrid schooling is a schedule that usually is something like, three days in the school building and two days at home, learning. Hybrid has been very successful in the opinions of parents, students and teachers.

The biggest con: Transporting school needs back and forth from school to home. But the grand pros: Reduces chances of sickness. Also, if sick, the student still has the ability to do work from home instead of missing out on the daily curriculum.

The Pro: Investing in school supplies for home use like, a USB digital microscope for science class where slides can easily be sent through email or a collection of books for reading could all be beneficial for a student to have in the home, even in the long run.

Staying Home

As the pandemic winds down in some areas or just feels old and tiresome in other areas, some students are still in the groove with home learning. The teachers and parents have expressed some annoyance with teaching constantly by Zoom, and most of the cons have been addressed over the last two years.

Cons: Students not understanding the work seems to be the biggest problem of them all, followed by technology not always working properly.

The pros can be great, though. Other than reducing the chances of mutating Covid, it’s certainly a pro in home learning when it comes to kids learning more about overall responsibility. Students are forced to know their own schedules instead of having a bell and a herd of others informing them that it’s time to get to class. Kids have also had to learn how to prepare lunch and maintain other home skills all while engaging in their class work.

All these options for educational learning have pros and cons, but as parents and teachers, you must help the students in adapting to the needed way of learning, so the kids are getting the maximum benefit. Whether you get a supply of school tools like computer microscopes, a drafting table or a mini library to help your student with continued learning at home, take the opportunity to talk with your children about their schooling and see how they feel about it. Learning is a necessity, and they may not have the choice in how they are learning at the moment, but it’s nice to know how you can support them in their learning career.

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