Coronavirus has caused the whole world to be in a pandemic. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can infect both humans and animals. There are several types of coronaviruses that can infect humans. Some coronaviruses are common and cause mild cold-like symptoms, such as a runny nose, headache, and cough. Everyone must quarantine themselves from the outside world to save themselves and others. This pandemic causes millions of people to lose their jobs and stay home. Students being taught from home and teachers teaching from home. But we don’t think about the struggles students and teachers go through from this pandemic. 

Students were forced to do school from home instead of going to school. Teachers are teaching and making lessons from home. For example, the article “The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Student Learning and How Schools Can Respond,” it states, “In the context of K–12 education, teachers, parents, and students faced new challenges as schools were closed and education was transitioned to a home environment from March 2020 through the end of the school year. This transition brought many changes as teachers grappled with how to continue to instruct and communicate with students, provide students with activities to help them practice what they were learning, and in some cases still trying to assess what students may have learned at home. Teachers’ approaches to instruction, practice, and assessment were varied as was the level of participation in the instruction, practice, and assessment by different students (Hamilton et al., 2020).” Teachers had the struggle of trying to get students to do work. Students would do less work than being in a physical school building. It the article, it explains, “Many teachers decided to greatly reduce the amount of instruction, practice, and assessment given to their students and the amount of time that students spent learning seems to be much less than it would have been if students had been physically present in school buildings (Hamilton et al., 2020). In extreme cases, there were students that did not access any materials provided by their teachers (Goldstein, Popescu, & Hannah-Jones, 2020).” Students are more likely to focus in a classroom than being at home on a virtual meeting app. 

I wanted to get a perspective from some teachers and students. I emailed 3 of my teachers from the high school (Al-Noor School) I went to and called 3 of my junior friends that have those 3 teachers. The first teacher I asked was Btisam Hassan (AP Literature teacher), she said she loved being home and teaching. She had more free time to spend with family. Her students don’t give her a hard time and they get her work done. The second teacher I asked was Sumaya Abedin (Psychology teacher), she doesn’t mind being home teaching, but she prefers to be teaching at school. She stated that her first class is at 8 am which causes only 10 to 15 students out of 24 students to join. But she doesn’t feel stressed out or has any problems with any students. The third teacher I asked is Yihia Mohammad (AP Chemistry teacher), he stated that he doesn’t not like being home because doing lab over on zoom is hard to explain to students and most of his students are failing because of the lack of work being done by them. Now, I asked my friends (students of the teachers), the three students I asked are Arafat Mahbub, Hassam Hajir, Taha Hamdan. These three students almost had the same response.  All three students said that AP Literature and psychology are their best subjects. But when it came to AP Chemistry Hassam and Taha stated that it’s hard to understand and hard to self-study. Arafat stated that the class is hard, but his brother helps him understand the lesson and teaches him at home. 

Ultimately, coronavirus has affected all of us. This pandemic brought families together and closer. The time that was separated from each other has been reconnected. It also, helped students and teachers have a positive and negative effect on their study and teaching life.  

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^[1] https://www.verywellmind.com/can-depression-kill-you-1067514

^[2] https://www.verywellmind.com/can-depression-kill-you-1067514

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