Schooling During COVID-19 Pandemic: A High School Stu-dent’s Perspective

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic was declared on March 11th, 2020, numerous health restrictions were put into place to help slow down the spread of the infectious disease. One of those safety measures was online school which replaced the traditional in-school learning. While distance learning meant a safer and innovative alternative to traditional schooling during the pandemic, it severely impacted a number of students, especially those from a lower socioeconomic back-ground. This is because those students very often did not have access to functioning electronic devices and stable network connections and therefore could not participate in online schooling. Additionally, learning from home greatly limited students’ ability to socialise with their class-mates, something that in-person schooling allowed for every day.