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5 Ways Schools Will Change After Coronavirus
The coronavirus will change society. I’m just not sure if it’s for better or for worse, yet. What I’m sure of is that education will be different moving forward. Unfortunately, I can see a few ways in which the movement will eventually manifest. Here are 5 things that a may change after coronavirus.
1. Social Distancing
Now, I have been practicing this for a long, long time. My nature is to be more reclusive and take things in rather than fill my daily schedule with things that occupy my boredom. Regardless of the brand of person you are and how inclined or acidic you may be to this new trend of social invited-ness, social distancing may be the cop-out in education, especially with teachers, for their unwillingness to get “close” to their students. We don’t need contact to show love, but there are millions of students every year that needed that one teacher who showed love in a physical form; whether it was their 2nd grade teacher giving them a hug or their 8th grade teacher dappin’ them up after a good job. I fear this may all be lost, depending on how severe the finality of this contagion takes us.
2. Online Learning
This subject has already been tossed around for the last few years. After this pandemic, the advocation for this change to schooling will only get stronger. So a few words to…
