Term 2 project

 14th December, 2021

COVID-19 is an acute respiratory illness in humans caused by a coronavirus, which has various symptoms and in some cases death, especially in older people and those with underlying health conditions. it was originally identified in China in 2019 and became a pandemic in 2020.  Since its outbreak in late December 2019, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the world, and like any critical sector, education has been hit hard. Students, schools, colleges, and universities have been deeply impacted.Globally, over 200,000 cases of the coronavirus have been reported in more than 160 countries, which have resulted in more than 8,000 deaths and left several States dealing with severe outbreaks.The Covid-19 impact was everywhere, which resulted in the closure of Schools and other educational institutions. Though schools are closed, students are attending their classes through various education initiatives like online classrooms.

         The pandemic caused further shocks to the system with schools forced to shut down during the lockdown period, and the transition of students and teachers to online teaching-learning. In India, around 250 million students were affected due to school closures at the onset of lockdown induced by COVID-19. The pandemic posed several challenges in public and private schools which included an expected rise in dropouts, learning losses, and an increase in the digital divide. The pandemic also called into question the readiness of the systems, including teachers to address such a crisis and the sustainability of private schools.

       Fundamentally, teens need to change the mindset that parents don’t understand situations that they are going through. Parents were teenagers once too. It’s unfair for you to give your dad the cold shoulder when he offers to drop you off at a dinner engagement or snap at your mom when she asks about your social life. 

          Now almost 12 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the literature on the mental health of teenagers during the pandemic is growing rapidly. Teenagers have faced many difficulties in online classes.