430 B.C in Athens is where the earliest recorded pandemic happened, it was during the Peloponnesian War. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia and Egypt, it crossed the Athenian walls as the Spartans laid siege. From then, the term pandemic became a scary nightmare no one will ever wants to happen. And today, we are in the midst of that nightmare and praying someone will wake us up. A vaccine perhaps.

This pandemic CoViD-19 has caused a lot of changes or twists in the things we used to. And education became one of the greatest twisted vital functions affected by the pandemic.

We used to going to school each day to learn and interact with our teachers and classmates. But it was twisted and became virtual where we talk, smile and listen on a mass of pixels in our screens. This drastic change is one of the challenges we have to overcome. The interactions became distant connections so much influenced by weak internet connections and technical problems.

How can education survive with all these unprecedented barriers in its delivery?

Teachers and students strive so much to continue education. From waiting for that slow internet connection to establish, to fixing audio and video problems and making activities engaging in virtually pixel delivered online classes. Everyone struggles.

Some proposed an academic freeze, some said delayed opening of schools, but the law said … continue. And that’s what we do.

Confucius once said, “ It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”, We continuously fight ignorance despite the  unfavorable circumstance we are in, we continue despite the hardships we face each single day, we conquer the distance between us to make that certain connection for teaching and learning to happen. We are all in this, struggling but still fighting. Education must continue. That’s the point.

By: Charito S. Miguel|LSB- School Clerk| BEPZ Elementary School| Mariveles, Bataan