Under the New Normal, No One is Left Behind: A Focus on Children's Rights


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What has been the most difficult aspect of your school experience with the new normal learning style?  Are you happy with your academic achievements? How tough is it for you to concentrate on your academics right now? Most importantly, how are you feeling?


The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on many people's lives and caused widespread disruptions in schools and universities. According to UNESCO, over 188 countries implemented nationwide school and university closures on April 10, 2020, affecting over 91% of the world's student population. During these school closures, all face-to-face lessons were canceled, prompting many schools to transition to the online and modular mode of teaching. This circumstance is tough for the teachers, kids, and even parents.


It also sparked debates and discussions about how much students learned or missed during the online class, as well as the modular learning style, which both protects and denies some students' right to a high-quality education. Our country is the only one in the world that has not started in-person classes since the pandemic began, jeopardizing the right to education of more than 27 million Filipino students and worsening the quality of the Philippine education system, which was already in poor shape prior to the global health crisis. Prior to the pandemic, the Philippines increased its literacy rate from 95.81 percent to 96.62 percent between 2010 and 2015. This is not a low figure when compared to Singapore, where the percentage rises from 95.86 to 96.77 percent.


This is, however, a low percentage when compared to South Korea, which is at 100%. (Data courtesy of the World Bank's World Development Indicator.) The Philippine government is doing everything in its power to ensure that no pupil is left behind. Teachers and instructors have never failed to meet the demands of their students and to use technology into their lessons during these challenging times. Many people, however, have been left behind and are barely surviving. Learners are the pandemic's most serious and unnoticed victims. The stress level is higher during the pandemic than before it, according to a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Harvard Medical School. This is, nevertheless, a low percentage when compared to South Korea, which is at 100%. (Data courtesy of the World Bank's World Development Indicator.)



The Philippine government is doing all possible to ensure that no pupil falls behind. Teachers and instructors have never failed to meet the demands of their students and to use technology into their lessons during these challenging times. Many people, however, have been left behind and are barely surviving. Learners are the pandemic's most serious and unnoticed victims. The stress level is higher during the pandemic than before it, according to a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Harvard Medical School.


Our learners are not exempted from these struggles. The decline of mental health and pressure affects students’ academic performance as these issues result in a lack of focus. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the country's suicide rate increased by 57.3 percent from the previous year. Only a few months into online learning last year, the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) reported that three students committed suicide after struggling to keep up with their education under the new system.


In October of 2021, students from a North Luzon-based university expressed their desire to take a break from the burdens of distance learning and an overwhelming academic workload, which degrades the quality of education and defeats the purpose of learning, citing cases of peer suicides due to mental health issues brought on by stress and pressure from their academic workloads.


The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a global impact, resulting in family separation, travel bans, bans in congested regions, unemployment, frontline workers working overtime, and school closures. Young people have the right to learn, be respected, and express their thoughts, among other things. As a result, we must keep a close eye on children's education because they are the country's future.

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