As of this semester, many colleges have been shutting down their programs because of the new COVID-19 variant. Some schools didn’t even start back up at the beginning of the year. When COVID-19 first began, nobody knew what was going to happen. Schools began to shut down and people were at a loss and confused. For students, it seemed like a long summer, but for parents and staff it worried them and what would happen to the education system.
The human body was designed for social interaction and studies have shown that “people who have satisfying relationships with family, friends and their community are happier, have fewer health problems, and live longer.” As schools begin to shut down students feel the loss of connection to peers. Sometimes, students only come to school to socialize with their friends. As more schools close, it is predicted that students' academics will drop and the health of teenagers will become poor with the loss of human connection. Also, face-to-face learning keeps all other distractions away and allows for a connection between the student and the teachers instead of the student and a screen.
On the other hand, many people would claim that online learning is better and ends up more beneficial. Contrary to the studies done about-face to face learning, there have been other studies stating that “ 80% of organizations believe their use of digital learning will remain the same, increase or decrease only slightly as restrictions on live training ease.” Meaning that some plan on staying online just because it was helpful. Some say it is less stressful and more self-paced but I think that it has too many distractions.
In the end, I think that we should still be going face to face, and allowing students the option to go to school. I think that COVID should not be treated any differently than the flu. If you feel ill you stay home until you recover, that is how it works. I think there are many strong opinions on both sides, but I don’t think COVID should change anything else or shut down any more schools.
1. Do you think schools should be shutting down again?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-is-good-for-you.html
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when school shut down and went virtual i noticed i hasd a hard time keeping up on school work. if schools shut down again i fell like that problem could happen again. i fell like in college going virtual would be easier.
I don't think that schools should shut down again, I think everyone is going to get exposed and there is no way in avoiding COVID-19 and its varients. I think shutting schools down again would impact teens mental health and overall not be good.
I do not see why schools should shut down again. If you feel sick then you should stay home until you feel better. I also think that online learning is to hard for students. For one online learning is to hard because there are to many distractions at home and students do not know how to ignore them which causes them to get to distracted to learn anything.
I don't think school should be shut down. Everything seems to be going well, If it does get worse than I do think it should be shut down. Things do seem to be getting worse than it was a month ago, so as long as we are paying close attention to all the people who have it.
I don't think that school should be shuttimg down because I don't want to be going into online learning again. Although, the Covid-19 thing is really flaming up, the process of cities with the mask mandates really just helped the Covid-19 thing, but it made it worse because about 19,000 kids and teachers are going to school.
I think that school is fine right now. I think people are going to get covid then get over it then they will be fine but it will just make it harder and more difficult to go online school. I think that covid will just go away and it will just get weaker and weaker the more we just live our lives just like the flu we should just wait until it passes.
I do not think that schools should shut down because that makes it very complicated to learn. I think it is hard to concentrate. I think it is important to compare how many people get covid because of the school and how many get covid somewhere else.
I do not think schools should be shutting down again. The side effects of online school is negative. I also believe that this should be treated any differently than the flu. We cannot be scared of COVID forever. Online school would also makw it harder for kids to interact face to face.
I don't think they should shut down. I think we just need to learn how to live with this new virus and not stop doing our everyday life. I think that when we were in online school more than teenagers felt that they were socializing less. It was also a break from all the peer pressure you can feel as a teengaer.
I do not think that schools should be shutting down again. Should this be treated any differently than flu, I personally also believe no. If you remember on the news, it was " you can even make your own masks to help keep you safe" But now it, "only N95 that works". Does this confuse anyone else?
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