Meghalaya: Online education a big challenge during pandemic says vice-principal of LBBHSS
Raising concern over the online mode of education, the vice-principal of Laban Bengalee Boys’ Higher Secondary School, Jona Goswami said, “That normal class atmosphere is just not there unless we can bring back students to school. We talk of economic crisis, but I believe that academics is worst hit.”
By Daiaphira Kharsati
SHILLONG:
The education sector is countering challenges posed by COVID-19 to bring back discipline in the lives of students who are getting used to smartphones, dubbed a necessity for online classes.
Raising concern over the online mode of education, the vice-principal of Laban Bengalee Boys’ Higher Secondary School, Jona Goswami said, “That normal class atmosphere is just not there unless we can bring back students to school. We talk of economic crisis, but I believe that academics is worst hit.”
She further informed that conducting online classes during the pandemic is a big problem as several factors need to be considered, the first being proper network and tools, secondly discipline cannot be maintained during offline classes.
She pointed out that communication becomes difficult without eye-to-eye contact with students.
Goswami said that children are given smartphones for online classes, but expressed concern as to how the students are using them, and if they are being monitored.
“We have given them a tool and if they do not have mental maturity, it can be dangerous. Some students will make use of it but most of them will not,” she added.
Stating that some of the students were loitering around, she lamented bringing them back to the same old system will take a lot of time.
The pass percentage compared
The 2021 pass percentage for the Science stream stands at 75.85 per cent, a slight improvement over the 2020 pass percentage of 72.24 per cent.
Likewise, the past percentage for the year 2017 stood at 76.76 per cent, for 2018 it was 74.58 per cent, for 2019 it was 71.07 per cent, and in 2020 it was 72.24 per cent.
As for the Commerce stream, the 2021 pass percentage stands at 80.93 per cent, while in 2020 it stood at 77.28 per cent, again a slight improvement compared to last year.
Similarly, in 2017 the pass percentage for the commerce stream was 71.84 per cent, 79.84 per cent in 2018, and 79.24 per cent in 2019.
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