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“We couldn’t because we didn’t have a computer or Internet. Until today, I don’t know what a virtual class looks like”Valerie, 12, told RCN News.
According to this newsletter, before the pandemic began, the brothers they were considered good students, they had never had problems with learning, but throughout this year they had to study with photocopies.
Even, the newscast details, the photocopies that were sent to them were blurred and they had to share a small table at home in order to learn something from the lessons.
“We wanted to cry because we had never lost the year, I never lost the year before and no subject, neither in transition nor in first or second”, stressed William.
The case reached the Secretary of Education of Bogotá, where Mauricio Castillo, the undersecretary, told RCN News that The evaluation processes had to take into account the conditions in which the students were experiencing the coronavirus pandemic.
“It has been recommended to educational institutions, through circular 25 that this is a process that must be taken up with great care: failure, repetition, are very critical issues that must be understood in the educational process”, Castillo indicated in the same newsletter.
For Carlos Ballesteros, president of the National Confederation of Parents, the case of brothers Valerie and William nor it is isolated and 10% of students in Colombia (approximately one million students) from preschool to 11 will lose the year for the conditions in which they were due to COVID-19.
The main challenges for young people were computer shortages and poor connectivity, teachers without the necessary tools and inflexibility of the model without clear rules, concluded Ballesteros at RCN.
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