COVID19 A Teens Perspective

the simple

is overlooked by complexity the easy

is missed by cleverness it is with

difficulty

we make fool of ourselves

recently jamie dimon the ceo of jpmorgan

chase

said the word unprecedented is rarely

used properly

but this time it’s being used properly

the kova 19 pandemic created an

environment that has flabbergasted

humanity

the challenges posed by coba 19 are far

and wide

and hardly anyone was unscathed by the

calamity

i’d like to focus however on the

perspective of teenagers

as a teen entering high school three

years ago

my focus was on studies college prep and

making new friends

all of this changed in the middle of my

high school experience

in the march of 2020 dreams were

replaced with uncertainties

survival and fear for the future school

closures and social distancing have

affected all students

students education mental health

and their future have all been

compromised

i assumed the fourth marketing period

was a blur for all students

as it was for me in spite of the very

best efforts of my school administrators

the society pre-kobit was built for

brick and mortar attendance

and was not ready for a sudden digital

transformation

in addition to disrupted education cover

19 had a

monstrous impact on many underprivileged

students food and safety

with food and health the maslow’s basic

needs in jeopardy

it became more difficult for students to

focus on their studies

not everyone is blessed with broadband

facilities

making the committed few work harder to

consume education

at home to make situations

even worse for students some schools are

unable to

do not plan to provide students with the

necessary accommodations

needed to learn virtually there are

plenty of challenges

and would and with the new school year

on the horizon

they must be solved soon as i watch the

media

i see so many experts sharing their

opinions on what they think about what

other people think

offering conflicting composals to a

complex

problem for my teen brain

this seems like a kaleidoscope colorful

but confusing i wanted to find out what

people like me believed

i wanted to learn what my fellow teens

thought about the world today

so that’s what i did in a non-scientific

study

i conducted i received 33 responses

from teen friends who were all in high

school

first on a scale from one to five one

being very bad

and five being very good how do you feel

your school

is responding to covin approximately

forty percent of students

voted for the middle option of three

based on this the majority of my

respondents believe that their school

are doing a mediocre job or doing the

minimum

to keep students and families in the

loop

for the next question do you feel safe

going back to school

the responses were overwhelmingly

negative

as two-thirds of students responded with

no

more than two-thirds of responders are

not comfortable

and are skeptical about the current

preparedness of schools

to reopen in the graph

i have listed my respondents number one

concern

that they want their school to consider

out of 32 respondents who answered this

question

15 of them had the same number one

concern

how schools will enforce mass and

distancing

throughout the long school day other

responses have made it clear

that they have also concerns about their

safety

and the biggest reason as to why they

attend school

their educational learning

when asked if the respondents felt like

online school

gave them the same support as in school

learning

more than 80 percent of responders voted

no

when asked why one of the respondents

replied that

the time focused on learning out of

school did not remotely compare

to what was taught in school this

ultimately

resulted in them becoming frustrated

that there simply wasn’t enough time

to learn what needed to be learned the

respondent also mentioned that their

motivation to

learn took a drastic decline as it

only took us 70 percent on an assignment

to count as a 100 percent

leaving the respondent to ask themselves

why they should put in the same amount

of work as

normal in a brown university study

they claimed that the coronal virus had

undone months of educational gain

resulting into unprepared students

they recommended that educators

preparing for the fall of 2020

will likely need to consider ways to

support students who are

academically behind

horace mann a trailblazer for the

american education system in the 19th

century

famously stated that the education

system was a great

equalizer of the conditions of man

which means that americans have a choice

to make

whether we will allow education to wedge

to be a wedge that widens the inequality

or whether we will use its power

man initially thought of this as a

chance to create opportunities for all

but the ideology has always been

threatened and kova 19

only proved the vast difference between

low

and high education in an experiment

conducted by the pew research center in

2015

it was found that about one-third of

households with children

ages from 6 to 17 and whose parents

yearly income was below 30 000 a year

do not have high-speed internet in their

households

compared to the six percent of such

households earning 75 000

or more a year this broad difference is

particularly prominent in black and

hispanic households

according to the yale university college

of medicine

many communities struggle to provide

students with the best

and competitive education other higher

income communities are able to produce

even before the corona virus outbreak

occurred

low-income schools have not met national

and state

educational objectives resulting in

restricting students future

opportunities

under-resourced schools face systematic

and ongoing challenges

related to the availability of

technology

unlike freshmen and sophomores juniors

and seniors will have a larger and more

serious impact

in getting ready for colleges no matter

how students education will present

itself

in the upcoming school year teachers

will be plagued with a question

on how they can help students come back

from such a setback and how they will be

able to stay

on track to their paths to success

five years ago bill gates ironically

predicted in

a ted talk that the failure to

prepare could allow the next epidemic to

be dramatically more devastating than

ebola

experiments in modern society every

educational institution

and research firm collects and combs

through massive amounts of data

behavioral economic and cultural

questions will be answered

and may provide guidance for the next

pandemic

almost all leaders at every level fail

to plan for the pandemic

in spite of warnings by the likes of

bill gates

have failed millions of teenagers

especially

juniors and seniors of high schools and

colleges

unlike them covered covederatines have

the biggest responsibilities

of not forgetting the lessons of kobit

and prepare to shape our society to face

future pandemics

bringing it back to tao the simple task

of planning

was overlooked by bureaucratic

complexity

the ease of wearing masks and social

distancing was missed by the presumed

cleverness of many

and it is with difficulty of the

pandemic’s impact

we make a fool of ourselves

but not all is lost many of the

questions asked in my study

came with the harsh reality of students

legitimate concerns

about being sent back to school and the

obstacles they will

face in the future due to this pandemic

despite this they have also found the

good of this pandemic

as 65 percent of students have felt more

connected with their families

and are feeling optimistic about their

future and all that is in store for them

after their completion of high school

we will perish if we don’t prevail we

are the leaders of the future

and we will prevail with the use of

common sense

that is so uncommon in today’s world

let us take a pledge that we won’t

repeat the mistakes of the present

and rather learn from them to make a

better world

for our future generations thank you