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Have we lost a whole school year?

 Covid-19, Coronavirus, Sars-Covid-2, we’ve heard it all. For more than a year this pandemic has kept us on the run and has bothered us all day long. But how exactly has it affected the way we learn, or to be more precise, how much we learn in school?

I grew up and am currently living in Austria. Here, the situation, as in almost every other country, has been very difficult during the past year. For 15- to- 18-year-olds, schools were closed for roughly 6 months due to the pandemic. Every time a new announcement by the government was made, we had to get all our books and go home to do “distance-learning”. 

I am sure that everyone has learned at least something from this difficult period of time. Many of my peers say that they can now manage their work schedule a lot better, others state that it even got worse due to the loss of structure. In this regard the separation of work and free time has gotten a lot more difficult as we didn’t leave our house to get to school or work anymore.

Many people say we have lost the entire past school year due to Covid. I wouldn’t exactly say that we lost the entire year as it sounds a bit harsh, but we have definitely lost part of it. At the beginning everyone had to find their way to accommodate oneself to the completely new situation but in the end, everyone has learned their lesson from it.

In a nutshell, the past year has been really challenging for all of us. But on the contrary, we could also find some good in it. So, how has it been for you? Have you managed to learn something during the pandemic? I’m looking forward to your response!

~ guenther_abraham


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