Teach the Children Well

As schools reopen, a lot will depend on teachers to ensure that students will be able to continue their education in a safe and healthy environment and make up for knowledge and skills that may have been lost due to the pandemic

- Abhilash Singh and India Legal Bureau

DUE to the pandemic, the impact was everywhere, which also resulted in the closure of schools and other educational institutions. As schools reopen in many parts of the country, it’s important that precautions are taken both inside and outside the classrooms to prevent the spread of Covid-19. A key lesson learnt during the pandemic is the important role teachers play in ensuring that learning continues. As schools reopen, a lot will depend on teachers to ensure that children will be able to continue their education in a safe and healthy environment and make up for knowledge and skills that may have been lost due to the pandemic.

The journey and spread of the novel coronavirus, now enhanced by the new variant, Omicron, have led to a variety of “school-like” civil society initiatives as well as efforts by teachers’ networks, volunteers and students, both during lockdown and post-lockdown periods, to somehow keep unbroken the tenuous pedagogic chord between the nearmissing children and the missing school. Schools and other educational institutions have opened over the last few months and it is now evident that these institutions are not super-spreader spaces once they have mitigation measures in place.