Cramped, congested, public schools will most likely have to wait out the virus to resume any meaningful schooling. Working from home, just like taking virtual class from home, is only accessible to a small fraction of Kenyan students. Indeed, smaller classes, and the capacity to distinguish and target the individual from the virtual space is what makes online learning successful. Thus, Covid-19 and the debates about virtual learning are merely exposing the social inequality in accessing education. It may make sense for stakeholders to be focused more on addressing social inequality in the education system than in obsessing about virtual learning, and “working from home”.

Source: Standard Digital May 15, 2020 21:00 UTC