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    Online education has become the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it provides greater access to learning, it also risks excluding many students who lack access to technology or support at home. There are concerns that not all students will be able to engage in distance learning effectively. An academic freeze may not be a viable solution either, as it could further delay students' education and harm the economy. The new normal presents many challenges, but ensuring inclusive, accessible education for all students during this difficult time remains a priority.

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    Online education has become the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it provides greater access to learning, it also risks excluding many students who lack access to technology or support at home. There are concerns that not all students will be able to engage in distance learning effectively. An academic freeze may not be a viable solution either, as it could further delay students' education and harm the economy. The new normal presents many challenges, but ensuring inclusive, accessible education for all students during this difficult time remains a priority.

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    Online education has become the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While it provides greater access to learning, it also risks excluding many students who lack access to technology or support at home. There are concerns that not all students will be able to engage in distance learning effectively. An academic freeze may not be a viable solution either, as it could further delay students' education and harm the economy. The new normal presents many challenges, but ensuring inclusive, accessible education for all students during this difficult time remains a priority.

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    ESSAY

    Online Education as a “New Normal”

    As time passes by, online technology is considered as convenient way of learning new things
    even if you’re not in school. Just by searching on Google for the informations you want to know up to the
    YouTube where you can watch videos related to solving, experimenting or even tutorials to help you
    understand more clearly on your subjects. Online learning is one of the great options to help people in
    many different ways, but the thing is, are we prepared if the only option we have is to learn online and no
    physical contact as much as possible?

    One of the main issues we are facing in the field of education is how to pursue studying amidst
    the time of the pandemic. As the government intended to combat and lessen the transmission of COVID-
    19, the Philippines response to the novel coronavirus was to implement General Community Quarantine
    (GCQ). GCQ is a form of quarantine with more relaxed measures compared to the enhanced community
    quarantine (ECQ). It will be enforced in provinces and cities considered to have moderate or low risk to
    COVID-19. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque introduced this term in his taped public address aired
    on Friday, April 24. He also explained what GCQ means to daily lives of Filipinos, as recommended by
    the government's coronavirus taskforce and approved by President Rodrigo Duterte. (Ranada, 2020). This
    idea will help the Government battle the COVID-19 to spread and it will help the frontliners to maintain
    the cases they are having. In this way, we can help them to flatten the curve of the infected individuals,
    fight the virus. The question is what is going to happen under the general community quarantine they
    enforced? Through remaining at home, they gave two options to resume the school’s activity or what we
    called the distance learning strategy, first is having an online class at home or by choosing modular for
    those students who are not capable to go online. Since face-to-face classes are not yet allowed, the DepEd
    implemented the Blended/Distance learning wherein the combination of the various distance learning
    modalities such as printed modules, offline digital modules, online, and TV and Radio-based instruction
    will be used by students and teachers when classes formally start.

    Because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, millions of students around the
    world are expected to officially resume their education after a delay of almost seven months. However,
    despite efforts to offer different options to make education more accessible and inclusive during the so-
    called new normal, not every student has decided to return to school. A survey conducted by Save the
    Children International showed that at least 10 million students worldwide will not be able to return to
    school this year due to lack of access to technology needed for distance learning and support they need at
    home. (Mateo,2020)
    Does the idea of having an 'academic freeze' can be the best option for Filipino students for now?
    Is the new mode of learning can really help all the students to learn or is it just for those students who
    have the privilege to have what is needed to attain the quality education?

    It is really problematic now how we're supposed to keep on what we're used to be doing every
    day, but I hope that someday, the new normal we are having, will soon be back to the “normal” we are
    used to, specifically for the reason that not everyone can have the privilege for what the “new normal”
    demands.

    ANALYSIS:

    Since the global pandemic started, several concerns have been raised in my mind. On this day
    when no one is sure if we will survive the virus that threatens our immune system, if we can cope up to
    the new normal and new mode of learning that was forced to us, if we can minimize our available
    resources where most of Filipino employees lost their job; resulting for our everyday lives to be greatly
    affected by it. One thing that is clear is that we know it will be tough for all of us to respond to this
    sudden change.

    I am just as worried as other students for those who do not have the equipment and time to take
    part in this new normal agenda. I know that there are some students who needs to feed their family more
    than anything else that’s why new normal is not one of their options. But what else can we do? I don't
    think academic freeze are going to be accepted because too much delay in our education has been made
    just to help our government fight the COVID-19. One major reason the academic freeze will not be
    tolerated is that, our economic state is not in a good condition since the lockdown, what more if we
    stopped producing graduates to help boost our economy for future years.

    A new normal is upon us, prioritizing the safety of ourselves and the people around us. I, as a
    student, is still adjusting to the new normal, new setups for learning same as our professors since they are
    used to teach in the common way. No one is at fault, no one wants the world to stop spinning, no one
    should suffer from not having an access to education. Education is a right and definitely not a privilege.

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