Staying safe: Secondary school students return to classrooms with red stickers as a mark of social distancing between tables as lessons resume for the first time on June 24 since the movement control order was implemented on March 18.
FINALLY schools have reopened amidst the strict standard operating procedures (SOPs) enforced at the present recovery movement control order (MCO). It’s a mixed bag of feelings for teachers and students alike.
While many teachers and students all over the country heave a sigh of relief at the thought of the resumption of school life as they know it, deep down, unsettling feelings still linger. Is it truly possible to go back to the way things were before the Coronavirus pandemic descended? Have some integral parts of school life changed so much that there would be no turning back?
