OP-ED: A stitch in time, and what happens without it

How we can change while remembering the basics
As if the economic and social disasters weren’t enough, worried parents have been left in the lurch. Education, the supposed backbone of a progressive society, has effectively been denied our children for more than a year. 

The on and off measures experimented by developed countries have all failed. Online classes, designed for structurally designed societies, have been castigated by psychologists. The touch-feel original systems have not had the desired effect, and contrarily contributed further to depression. 

Young minds have been scarred, and there’s no end in sight. Cut and paste to developing countries, and the prospects become more frightening. Availability of online schooling just cannot cover the child population. Outcomes are frightening. It becomes another feather in the cap of exclusive rather than inclusive schooling. Teachers’ skills, already questionable, haven’t been advanced by any form of training. What is one’s forte is another’s bane.