Students’ Psychology in Pandemic

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True to the words, when the pandemic had imposed a sudden and indefinite lockdown globally, most of the students thought that they would never return to school. While the brilliant students prayed for the schools to reopen, the back-benchers (for whom education is a drag) took advantage of the opportunity and started to drop out of schools on their own accord.

Children have a tender mind and the disruption in education has indubitably triggered some psychological problems in most of them. Though we have vaccinated our children to save them from the physical ill-effects of COVID-19, what about their mental fitness, which has been pushed under the carpet? For, cognitive fitness is not perceived as an immediate problem by most? And, we generally don’t worry about it unless it gets out of control.

Online education, a blessing in disguise
To save the children from losing at least one or two years of their academic years due to the open-ended shutting down of schools/academies, the worried governments adopted a single model of online education so that the students can continue with their studies from the comforts of their home. And, this policy put the spark back in the eyes of hundreds and thousands of children whose future would have been lost to darkness otherwise. And, the worrying parents took a sigh of relief as their children got back to (online) schools.

Promotion without exams
Since the pandemic was refusing to go away, and it became difficult to conduct school examinations during lockdown including boards and universities, our government came up with a smart solution. It imposed a policy nationwide to promote all the students based on the joint performances of their last few academic years including the current year in absence of their final examinations. And, pre-primary and primary levels benefitted more as the academies promoted their students unqualifiedly (cutting down on regular exams), keeping in mind the current pandemic-hit scenario.

For humanity’s sake, can they check the school rosters to get the drop-outs back to school? And promote them even, alongside the continuing quorums without conducting regular exams, taking into consideration their disadvantaged circumstances. It is time for the nations to come together in the time of this crisis and take a joint decision and become more human.
And what about the pre-primary students who were readying themselves to see the schools for the first time. Would they jump one/two years of their beginners’ (academic) years even?
And, not to forget the aspirants of the professional course entrance exams, like the MBBS and Engineering, etc? Would the hitherto, customary qualifying cut-off go down as well? I think it should come down in all countries (and in India, by a reasonable 10-15 percent or so) given the present model of promotion for students of high school and colleges where marking will not be error-free without regular exams, and many will be left grumbling. So let’s be more lenient here as well to avoid pouring cold water on their enthusiastic(a professional career’s) dreams.
The woes of the students will get resolved practically this way, but their mental health will still need to be taken care of; and at this time, meditation classes will be a good idea to bring back the focus and concentration of the students after the reopening of the academies.
Understanding that pandemic implied maladies were not in anybody’s control, and they, the small children with tender minds and the mature adolescents who will be representing the future workforce should be saved in time, let the educators be a bit more flexible for the sake of the future and cerebral health of hundreds and thousands of its student force. We, as a world, can together fight this pandemic better by learning from one another. I hope this article can serve as a quick-fix solution to fill up the temporary educational cracks of the pandemic.
 
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