Write an essay highlighting the Post-Covid19 trauma and problems faced by students all
around the world.
Answers
Schools are shut, and students are stranded at home, with extremely limited contact with friends and virtually no physical activity, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic raging across the world. IB, A Levels, ICSE, CBSE all known and recognized boards have postponed or cancelled examinations. Likewise, top colleges like MIT, Harvard, Princeton have closed.
Closer home, institutions like IITs and IIMs have all closed their campuses and moved classes online. Even standardized tests like GMAT, GRE, SATs, ACT remain suspended and the future of many students hangs in balance!
Clearly, there is panic all around and educators and students alike are confused as to next steps and continuity with respect to educational objectives.
Explanation:
Children are developing serious mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress, because of the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned.
In a report, the Childhood Trust says disadvantage is leaving children extremely vulnerable.
As well as anxiety about their loved ones' health, many children are facing social isolation and hunger.
Lack of internet access is also setting disadvantaged children back.
With many classrooms still closed for lockdown, children unable to access the internet at home have been effectively shut out of online lessons. Teachers warn this will lead to entrenched inequalities between them and classmates from more affluent families.
Children in this position are also unable to access online therapy or other healthcare appointments they need.
A lack of contact with teachers and GPs, who are trained to spot the signs of abuse and neglect, is also leaving kids who are experiencing abuse at home hidden and in danger.
'Mum's going to die, she's not coming back'
Laurence Guinness, chief executive of the Childhood Trust, told BBC News many children it had spoken to were experiencing "vivid nightmares" about the coronavirus and death - a possible side-effect of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
These children had been particularly affected by the global death tolls, he said, which had made them worried their parents and friends would die of coronavirus.