At least teachers believe so therefore, tons of homework overwhelms us everyday. Due to the outbreak, most activities, including daily clubs, are canceled at present, thus we do not have much to do at home. “Oh my goodness … Why there is so much homework?” This was my first reaction to online study as I looked at the homework checklist. Emily Barkley, Lawrenceville, NJ ‘The workload has been overwhelming.’ I am really anxious to get back to school and really foster my love of learning through my peers. I have a significant lack of motivation and I miss the thought-provoking discussions I used to have with my classmates during physical school. I feel like my education is not being fulfilled. Our classes have been cut down by ten minutes and instead of having six classes a day, we only have three or four classes synchronously. We use Zoom and can see one another and our teacher, but everyone is always muted so as not to interfere with background noise. Peer-to-peer interaction is a really pivotal part of education at my school, and it feels like it falls so short in our distance learning. We use a Harkness-style teaching method where all the students and the teacher sit at a round table together and instead of learning through lecturing, we learn from each other. Something I find really special about my high school is that we are really focused on student-centered learning. If you had told me a few months ago that I would be praying to go to school, I would’ve laughed and called you crazy, but I would do anything to go back to my school. I truly miss things I didn’t even know that I loved about my school. I miss sitting in a classroom with a teacher and other students, having discussions and asking questions. I miss walking down the hallways with my friends. While this sounds pretty enjoyable for any teenager, it has made me miss school. My online school day consists of waking up at 10 am instead of 6 am, working on my laptop in my bed instead of a classroom, and now I make my own schedule. I did not realize that I took my routine and school day for granted until now. This definitely won’t be beneficial to my work ethic in the upcoming senior year for me … Thanks to the Coronavirus, I have decided to make every moment of my senior year count and not take it for granted as I did for the past three years of high school. There also seems to be a lack of motivation for me now to accomplish tasks because at school, we were given an hour and a half each day to get work done in class but now I keep pushing assignments back until the last second. Now that I have no reason to have a schedule, I have been going to bed and waking up much later than I used to. I had a schedule when going to classes and when to wake up and go to bed. Now I feel as though I’m losing friendships I had at school since we can’t go anymore. Now that it’s taken away from me, I realize now that school was my main source of communicating with people. For me, I loved getting to see my friends everyday in the school environment. School is a place for building friendships, learning responsibility, and getting an escape from the house, but it seems as though the Coronavirus has taken that all away from us. ‘I did not realize that I took my routine and school day for granted until now.’ Please note: Student comments have been lightly edited for length, but otherwise appear as they were originally submitted. Roland Grise Middle School Sunnyvale, Calif. Martin Luther School-Maspeth, Queens, N.Y. Fruitland, Idaho Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, Ga. Forest Lake Christian School, Auburn, Calif. “If you had told me a few months ago that I would be praying to go to school, I would’ve laughed and called you crazy, but I would do anything to go back to my school,” Hannah from Nashville said.īefore we get to the rest of the comments, we’d like to give a warm welcome to the new students who joined the conversation this week from:īarcelona Berkeley, Calif. Others, though, recounted the challenges of distance learning, from struggling to understand assignments and getting easily distracted to not having reliable internet. But some students have discovered that they enjoy getting to work at their own pace, set their own schedule and be free from “the stressful environment of school.”
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