Commitment to education: Students inside a jeepney doing their school work using a nearby store’s Wi-Fi signal at the Tandang Sora terminal in Quezon city. — AP
Grade school and high school students in the Philippines have begun classes at home after the Covid-19 pandemic forced remote learning onto an educational system already struggling to fund schools.
The shift to distance learning has been a logistical nightmare for the poverty-stricken South-East Asian country that has long lacked enough classrooms, teachers and educational equipment.
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