Schoolgoers missing social interaction 

                                

While noticing online classes of primary school students, a sudden thought popped my mind  today morning.

Critics are saying that after this online class, children are forgetting the habit of writing sentences. They are missing social interaction, physical activities, sharing habits, and most importantly bonding with teachers as well as friends. When they were physically going to school, they got an instinct to become monitors of the class. For being selected as a monitor of class or receiving that “star pencil” (usually being given to best performer of the day in class) from the teacher, they were ready to compromise with a habit of talking with friends and pretended to be the most disciplined student. This developed a kind of leadership quality among them.

Many academicians and experts said that children were earlier habitual of writing paragraphs, lines from the blackboard, and this developed a kind of skills among them. They learned how to read the chapters and how to write. After this Covid-19 pandemic, some schools have restricted the writing part syllabus while some schools are giving copy work in a digital way. There is no doubt when children get written work at home, they seek help from parents instead of writing themselves.  

The most important thing I noticed that apart from all these skills, children also learned socialization and stay outside of the home for few hours.

I agree with the point taken out by experts that children are forgetting writing skills. But, at the same time, I thought why write so much in copy. Some schools are giving entire copy work at home and children (mostly parents) are busy filling up their copies for further submission in school. Writing in copy help to learn the chapters, sentence formation, spellings along handwriting.

Do you think that this writing skill will be useful for these kids after ten or 15 years? No doubt writing lengthy paragraphs, question-answers help them to learn spelling, sentence formation, and develop reading-writing skills but what about these handwriting exams? Many schools especially Missionary are taking handwriting exams of students, pressurizing parents to ask their kids for writing extra pages.

As far as I am concerned, after 10 years, when these kids will be there in class 12 or nearby, they will be typing instead of writing. Modern education has replaced the traditional method of teaching and everything is being digitalized but schoolgoers are still asked to writing lengthy paragraphs.