'Learning crisis' as Philippine kids face second year of remote schooling

Kylie Larrobis, an incoming first grade student, conducts writing exercises at her home in Quezon City, suburban Manila. - AFP

MANILA (AFP): Classrooms in the Philippines were silent Monday (Sept 13) as millions of school children hunkered down at home for a second year of remote lessons that experts fear will worsen an educational "crisis".

While nearly every country in the world has partially or fully reopened schools to in-person classes, the Philippines has kept them closed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN says.