25/05/2022
THE CALL FOR LIGTAS BALIK-ESKWELA! 📣📚
Covid-19 pandemic has brought many challenges and one of which is the access to inclusive and quality education. With the inevitable shift to online and modular classes, both have their own share of advantages and disadvantages. Students had to face an overwhelming increase in academic workload, internet connectivity issues, and lack of physical interaction with peers. This has brought a bigger question of what the goal of our education really is: for learning or for mere compliance?
This is why the call for “LIGTAS BALIK-ESKWELA” is at a height. This is an inclusive campaign that considers the welfare of students, teachers, and school staff by encouraging long-term, sustainable plans of action for education. In the simplest term, this pushes for a safe return to school despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Jenelyn vilanueva of brgy. Lopez Jaena Jaro is one of those who wishes for face-to-face classes to resume.
“As a student, budlay gid para sa akon ang online class kay indi man tanan may internet connection.. Kag may mga times man nga kinanlan fid namon sang explanation sang mga ginahatag sa amon nga module.. Mas nami gid kung mag balik na ang face to face classes kay may mas ma learn pagid kame kag new knowledge nga matun an.. "
-Jenelyn villanueva
Learning should not be equated to the number of tasks submitted on time, rather, it should mold students to reflect on the world around them, to go beyond their echo chambers, and challenge what they already know. Education will always be a right rather than a privilege.