The Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education did a remarkable job by giving methods that can allow the students to learn from home. These methods are helpful and keep the students safe from the virus. However, these methods are still having disadvantages, or let's just say it is not going smoothly as expected in some places.
Since this has been implemented, there are no days of not receiving complaints from the parents, students, and even from the teachers. Social media platforms have been flooded by posts about different complaints to the said department. Some trolls on Facebook are making fun of the issues and they are happily making fun of it, then continue trolling around.
Disadvantages
I will enumerate these advantages and explain this one by one to deliver further information.
1. Connectivity. Some places like rural areas mostly have this problem. Rural areas have a limited number of cell sites so the network signals in a place like that are distributed unevenly and always unstable. This is not enough to take online classes. It this even hard to surf the internet, make a call, or send a message. People here often climb the roof of their houses, search for higher places, or even climb a tree just to get network signals. So, in places like this, the most recommended type of learning is Modular Lessons.
2. Tools. We all know that not all families are financially stable to provide for the needs of their children such as cellphones, tablets, PC or laptops, and the internet. This is mostly the problem for students in rural areas and sometimes even students who are in urban areas are still lacking these tools. Though, the students in urban areas have alternative resources to keep up with their classes. They can easily go to the nearest computer shop or the city library which have computers and the internet unlike in the rural areas where houses are further from the roads and electricity.
3. Areas. The geography of the place can also be a disadvantage in learning from your home. Mostly affected are rural areas that can't be reached by media coverage. Especially residents in mountain areas, agricultural areas, places that don't phone signals, or residents living further away from highways with no means of transportation. This kind of place is a hindrance for teachers which made them sacrifice their safety traveling just to deliver the modules and give instructions.
4. Parent's Knowledge Capacity. There are situations that parents do not have the educational background or an undergraduate. If their student is elementary, how can they be able to guide them at home if they can't even understand those simple lessons? This is a great challenge now to the teachers on how they will handle this kind of situation. It's either the teachers will talk to them on phone, the students will listen to the DepEd broadcast on the radio, or they can watch DepEd Tv Channel on their TVs at home if they have.
5. Activities Overload. This is the number one problem of students as of now. This is always the issue in all social media platforms. Many students are so stressed and burned out already because of never-ending activities that they are working on every day. In some instances, some students as of now are having mental issues and some students committed suicide already because of being frustrated and depressed by these overloading activities.
Just imagine the burden that has been given to us of this pandemic. The whole world is in big distress right now. It is quite frustrating, depressing, and painful to see how this all goes and we can't do anything about it right now but to stay at home and follow safety measures.
My final Thoughts
Even though we can't go to school to meet our classmates and teachers, let's just be thankful that we could still learn in different ways. If there will be a time that you feel you can't take it anymore, just remember that you are not the only one suffering that way. You are not the only one who is stressed right now. You are not the only one who doesn't know how to understand their lessons properly. You are not the only one who can't gather information for their research properly. You are not the only one who has never-ending assignments and outputs. You are not the only one who is taking exams with unstable internet. So, keep your head cool, EVERYBODY DOES!
Learning from home can be distracting