{"id":2196,"date":"2020-09-04T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fezaa.com\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:46:20","slug":"covid-19-e-learning-program-challenged-parents-of-students-staying-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fezaa.com\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: E-learning program challenged parents of students staying at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Some parents of student staying at home because schools were closed after covid-19 outbreak, in order to stop its spreading, are challenged by the e-learning program despite not being tired of their children, and are imploring the government to do something so that the schools can reopen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChildren are ours, we can\u2019t be tired of them, but this e-learning program set for them is so much challenging.\u201d Said Grace Ingabire, a mother from Kicukiro district, Kigali city. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult for a child to study from a radio or a TV when they don\u2019t expect any evaluation, they get bored and loose the concentration.\u201d Added Ingabire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingabire says that staying at home for so long has discouraged children in many ways; they no longer feel the mood of studying, parents have to always push them to study, but when no one is around children will not even bother following that program either on TV or on radio. She even pointed finger on so many disturbing things at home, when a child is following a TV program and then the door opens, or some visitors come in, and so many other distractions that make a child to lose focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More challenging for working parents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josiane Tuyishimire is a parent in Rusizi district Western province, working daily as businesswoman; she affirms that children get more bored when they are staying the whole day at home; she says \u201cwe normally are used to go every day to work and our children going to schools, seeing them staying home all days, they get bored and fight each other, or start to practice what they see in films.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy, but then we don\u2019t have a choice since this pandemic is involved and we can\u2019t control it, we have to live with it; all I can request for our government is to find a way in which even our children can live with the pandemic but in their schools, because for them to stay this longer at home is so challenging for parents.\u201d Said Tuyishimire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teachers find it challenging too<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even teachers find the e-learning program for children staying at home more challenging. Emmanuel Harerimana is a parent and a teacher from Rusizi district, western province, he says that it\u2019s challenging for children when their parents are out to work because no one is going to watch over these children, to remind them to follow the program; and the consequence will be that some lessons will pass without the children getting them, day after day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t be happy that we continue to study from home, no matter what, when a child is with a teacher face to face can focus on studies more than just listening it to the radio or watching it on TV.\u201d Said Harerimana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do experts think about the issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Pacifique Malonga is an expert in education; he affirms that the program is psychologically, environmentally, methodologically and pedagogically inefficient. \u201cIf children can\u2019t socialize, if they can\u2019t discuss content of their lessons and results of their exams, if the environmental learning is radio school, I guarantee you there is no education.\u201d Said Professor Malonga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe main mistake is that they didn\u2019t consult parents and teachers before putting the program in action, some of them are more experienced in education, they should have helped in designing more adequate solution.\u201d added Professor Malonga; he advises for the government to train deeply teachers about the new online and radio school, and the parents about monitoring of radio school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Institutions in charge of education see it differently<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side, the institutions in charge of education in Rwanda say that it should not be a challenge to parents. 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