500 days since 250 million children in India went to school.
Everything is opening. Why aren't schools?
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Everything is opening. Why aren't schools?
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The impact of school closures on children has been extensively documented.
Survey after survey has found learning has come to a stop.
Child health is adversely impacted.
Worse, child labour and child marriage have gone up.
Survey after survey has found learning has come to a stop.
Child health is adversely impacted.
Worse, child labour and child marriage have gone up.
.@Johanna_Deeksha sums up the voluminous evidence on the crisis in the lives of Indian children
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Behind the numbers are young people whose lives have been upended.
@Johanna_Deeksha met 13-year-old Oviya in a slum in Bengaluru.
She was an avid learner in school. Now, she is the sole earner of her family.
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@Johanna_Deeksha met 13-year-old Oviya in a slum in Bengaluru.
She was an avid learner in school. Now, she is the sole earner of her family.
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Only one in four children in India has access to the digital devices.
Most government schools aren't online, neither are their students.
Private schools have transitioned to online classes. But it is far from smooth.
Most government schools aren't online, neither are their students.
Private schools have transitioned to online classes. But it is far from smooth.
.@AarefaJohari spoke to the mother of a 7-year-old child in Mumbai about their struggle with online education
“He would keep saying he was not in school anymore because he was not in front of a teacher, and would refuse to study anything."
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“He would keep saying he was not in school anymore because he was not in front of a teacher, and would refuse to study anything."
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It's been a financially difficult year. Millions of parents are finding it hard to pay school fees. Private schools, too, are struggling. Many have permanently closed down.
About 12.5 lakh children enrolled in private schools in Haryana have dropped out, government data shows.
About 12.5 lakh children enrolled in private schools in Haryana have dropped out, government data shows.
.@VijaytaL spoke to a 13-year-old in Haryana who found himself locked out of classes for a week because his parents hadn't paid the annual fees.
Why should we pay, his father asked, when kids aren't using the school facilities.
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Why should we pay, his father asked, when kids aren't using the school facilities.
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These are just snapshots from urban India.
By all accounts, the situation is worse in rural India.
By all accounts, the situation is worse in rural India.
https://twitter.com/roadscholarz/status/1418922988661927936?s=20
The failure to reopen schools threatens to reverse all the progress made by India in the last three decades in reducing malnutrition, child labour and child marriage, educators and child rights activists say.
“The overall development of one-third of the population is at stake."
“The overall development of one-third of the population is at stake."
And for those who ask – what about the third wave of Covid?
Experts say no scientific basis for the fear that children will be more vulnerable in the third wave.
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Experts say no scientific basis for the fear that children will be more vulnerable in the third wave.
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As each day passes by, and our children stay away from educational institutes, the governments are doing irreversible harm to them and to India’s future, writes @Deepanshu_1810
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