These three articles below proposed how schools as communities are very important, and schools are deeply woven into the fabric of society. The pandemic situation changes people perspective that “the old-fashioned school” is not totally failing, and there is no need to wish them away altogether. Schools as communities are not the only site for teaching and learning, but it helps students to create connectedness and sense of belonging among students. These feelings are important for students because it is an essential element of humanity. The report from The Australian Council for Educational Research shows that there is a correlation between sense belonging and students’ outcome. The report also reveals that sense belonging increases students’ happiness as an individual. Making a connection with others and sense belonging is vital to helping us survive as social creatures because today, we live in the loneliness age that can kill us. Even though digital schooling gains its popularity in this knowledge age, it cannot replace the warm connection of face to face meeting at schools between students and teachers. Schools as communities also open parents’ eyes how essential schools’ existence because it protects and supports children in many ways such as mental, emotional, health and academic life when parents cannot effort them for 24 hours because they have to work. In short, I agree that schools as a community are the heart in education, and we should think about how to reinvent the school system not to dismiss it.
Further Reading:
https://lens.monash.edu/2020/03/19/1379849/coronavirus-remembering-the-value-of-school-in-a-time-of-crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/07/australian-students-feel-lonelier-and-more-left-out-than-a-decade-ago
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