Education: Before and After Pandemic

Can you still remember your school life before the pandemic? Is it face to face class right?. The feeling that you'll wake up every morning, even though it's good to take a sleep again but you have the responsibility to study. The most challenging part is when it is cold and you need to take a bath. Some strong people pouring cold water and suddenly jump due to coldness. Once the bath finished it is a relief because we survive the hard part. The next thing is to cook breakfast while looking at the time cause we know time is important. He feeling that once its 1 hour before the class will start. Rushing everything and sometimes forgetting something in our home. Common students like me need to commute in order to get in school, it is lucky if you have afternoon class but hassle if you have morning class. You need to face the final battle in which you need to compete to other students and employees who rushing to go in school and jobs. Facing different people with different smell. The most solid is once you've entered inside the jeep. Before the pandemic, jeepneys are fully loaded with people, that is why different smell surrounds your nose, though its still morning there are still stinky odors. Once you've survive that level then you pass the dungeon and need to enter into boss part. Entering inside the gate of school is easy for those who have morning class but it is a nightmare for those who have afternoon class. The feeling that if you have afternoon class, you need to endure the heat of the sun and the crowd of students who also waiting for the gate to open. I always experiencing that, I tried once to compete on students who waiting for gate to open and I didn't repeat that thing because I was surrounded by crowd and some of them are yelling, its so much noise.

The road is full of students who struggling to find a good spot once the battle of entering the gate is on. Even the cars and tricycle can't pass because of students who spread around the school. I think the school had almost 5000 students. Thats the reason why every grade level was divided on morning and afternoon class. For those Grade 7, 10 and 11 they have morning class and the rest is for afternoon class. I was so excited when I was in grade 11 to go to school. I woke up every 4 AM then prepare everything. I was the one preparing for my meal and everything. After that at exact 5:10, I'll go to entrance of our school. It was still dark but I love dark. I'll wait outside the gate then wait until it opens. It is not crowded and that is one of benefit of morning class. Once I got inside our room, i will automatically open the aircon then play my music. I'm the only student inside the class every 5:30 that's why I solo the coldness of aircon. After a few minutes my punctual classmates will enter our room and also enjoy the aircon. The most beautiful part is once the discussion starts, we have general mathematics and pre-calculus but I don't understand math and numbers. In our room we have unity, my classmates are so kind that they let everyone to copy their assignments. I miss my classmates so much, the memories, suffering, misunderstanding, times of ups and downs, sharing of thoughts and ideas and the most memorable part is the robber inside our room. We can't neglect the fact that before the pandemic our life in school is so memorable but everything change when pandemic came. It change our lives and education. Some students can't afford to have an online class that's why they don't enroll. There is choice between modular and online class but there are still school who mandated students to attend in online class. We all know not all students can't afford to have gadgets and internet connection, many Filipinos asked for Academic freeze but he government are looking for circumstance that education must continue and pandemic won't stop the spirit of Filipino to learn. It is their slogan but they are not looking for outcome. Onlinr class was implemented but he guarantee that student will learn is vague.

I'm also engaged on online class and I can say that there's no guarantee that I can gain a good quality of education. Virtual presentation is nothing than practical because students need to see and hear what are the thing they need to understand and lecturing on online class can't guarantee that students are learning. There are also instances that students are not learning on lectures. I admit that I do that sometimes because I found that online class is so boring. I know that some of you may agree to my opinion and I'm happy for that. I'm still hoping that pandemic will stop and our normal life will come. I heard a news that it will be an online class again next year and it made me so sad.

Authors Message:

I'm not against the government but I don't like how they implement things on this country. There are lots of Filipinos who bashing the current government due to inappropriate decisions and it creates gap between citizen of this country and the leaders who ruling this nation. Thank you for spending time reading this nonsense article.