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Online schooling during COVID 19 pandemic for preschool children, is it correct?

Impact of Covid 19 infection is seen everywhere. Everything is under lock down. Social distancing and hand hygiene is the common mantra for making oneself safe from the infection.

Schools, coaching classes, colleges are all closed. When they will open , how these will be run is all a big question and how to handle?

Lock down started from March 2020 and now in June slowly some establishments have opened and society has started slowly to come back to normal.

Now the monsoon season is round the corner and chances of viral infection, cold, cough is very high for the young children of age group 2 to 6 years.

With all the infection threat around, is it right to have physical schooling in operation.

Safety of children is very important. I am of view that for the year 2020-2021 preschool should be operated online rather than physical school. It is not possible to keep social distancing among children as they will keep on moving and playing.

Having said that online schooling is the way forward for the year 2020-2021, how it should be done. In our opinion it should be operated as under:

School should post the activity to be done on the parents mail id OR on their mobile. Parents should get these activity done under their supervision. Children are young and they need constant supervision during the activity.

The teachers should come on line at predefined time and day. This will reduce the contact time with mobile, computer.

Parents need to take out their time for activity of child as per their convenience.

Children of this age group are not able to completely express, share their feeling. Children also have their own world i.e. parents, friends, school, teachers etc. With the lock down all of sudden their world comprising of school, teachers, friends is gone. Currently we have technological advantage  and can connect on mobile, laptop, computer etc.

This connection with their world will give them the confidence and they will not be suffering from suppressed feelings.

Parents need to give this time period to children. It helps them to develop confidence, social skills, memory skills.

We urge parents to give time to children. Make children's life enjoyable.

Co-operation and contribution by all will make online schooling for children an engaging activity. Parents can take help from school for functioning of online schooling.

   

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