The lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have interrupted conventional schooling with nationwide school closures. Many students confined at home due to COVID-19 may feel stressed and anxious, and this may negatively affect their ability to concentrate on schoolwork.
This webisode attempts to gain a better understanding of how the COVID-19 crisis may affect girls’ learning.
Our today's guest is Arieth, she will share with us the challenges she faces during the time of covid-19 pandemic.
How did Covid-19 impact me?
Hello, my name is Arieth Valentim, I study in the 13th grade at a public school and I'm from Angola.
Covid-19 came to teach me to be a more independent person, this changed my life completely. Before the pandemic I interacted more closely with people and this disease came to separate us.
Covid-19 limited me from doing certain things that I was used to doing and I can no longer walk in public places without the use of masks.
How did it impact your academic life?
My way of learning is not the same, before I had the possibility to interact with colleagues, and teachers attended classes regularly but today this is no longer done, from time to time I have been watching video lessons but the quality of teaching is not the same.
But I have been studying hard because the present moment requires a lot of effort.
Now that the schools have reopened, have you gone back to school?
Yes I went back to study with a lot of fear, first of all due to public transport and school security. We know that since then public schools have never offered pleasant environments and now with the emergence of coronavirus things have complicated.
Good protection measures against the covid-19 were not created, we do not have people who do the sanitation of the courtyards and classrooms. The only prevention measure I noticed is the hand washing in the school main gate, in general there is no strict prevention measure to protect students from the coronavirus.
Didn't you forget anything you learned before the pandemic?
I forgot many things, it's been a long time that we stayed at home without studying. In the beginning I even tried to continue but after I started feeling lazy because we had no guarantee that we would go back to study this year.
So far, it is also being strange, many limitations, but I have been interacting with my colleagues on the internet and this has helped me a lot.
Did the school distribute any bio-security material?
No, they didn't distribute.
How have teachers behaved?
On the part of the teachers some attend classes and others don't. Also due to the risky ages, we have many elderly teachers in our institution and this has caused students a lot of damage and loss of class, we are limited to learning certain things.
Physical school closure and the lack of in-person contact may make students less externally motivated to engage in learning activities.
The effect of COVID-19 on education poses some key challenges for policymakers. First, measures should be taken to ensure that more vulnerable students will be able to make up for the learning loss they experienced during the lockdown. This should be done quickly and effectively, in order to avoid that such crisis results in permanent education and economic inequality.
Do you have a personal experience with the coronavirus would you like to share? Or a tip on how your town or community is handling the pandemic? Don't miss this opportunity to bring girls back to school.Tell us your story!
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