{"id":51443,"date":"2021-02-04T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=51443"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:55:43","slug":"where-distance-learning-increases-child-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/where-distance-learning-increases-child-labor","title":{"rendered":"Where &#8220;distance learning&#8221; increases child labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-updated\">Last updated on February 10th, 2021 at 11:55 am<\/p>\n<p>Imran is a 14-year-old boy living in Pabna, Bangladesh. He spends his days indoors in a factory, struggling with fabrics and sewing machines. He&#8217;s a daily wage earner. But until March, before CoVID-19 came to his country, Imran was a student. Then, due to pandemic, his school closed and he transferred to &#8220;remote learning.&#8221; But as his family is very poor and they can&#8217;t afford a PC, a<em> <\/em>tablet, a smartphone, or even a television, so Imran was forced to give up studying and gave himself up to the hard work of an exhausting job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-increasingly-poorer-families\"><strong>Increasingly poorer families<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Imran&#8217;s is a fictional story, but representative of a reality. The problem of the increase in child labour in Bangladesh due to &#8220;remote learning&#8221; has been addressed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucanews.com\/news\/digital-divide-forces-poor-bangladeshi-students-out-of-school\/91122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portal <em>UcaNews<\/em><\/a>. One of these teenagers who dropped out of school says: &#8220;I saw my father&#8217;s suffering in managing the family. Yet he sent us to school despite the difficulties. I wanted to work and help him, but he did not agree. Only after the school closed did he allow me to work.&#8221; The virus has dealt another blow to Bangladesh&#8217;s precarious economic situation, so much so that many households, already miserable, have seen putting even young children to work as a sad but necessary resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-data\"><strong>Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of poor Bangladesi children are being forced to give up their studies because of the pandemic. According to the report <a href=\"https:\/\/103.16.74.211\/frontpage\/news\/education-during-pandemic-digital-divide-wreaks-damage-2030637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interim Education Watch 2020-21<\/a> by the NGO Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE), 69% of hundreds of students surveyed did not participate in remote learning classes and 57.9% said they were unable to attend due to lack of electronic devices. Mostafizur Rahaman, one of the authors of the study, told the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/103.16.74.211\/frontpage\/news\/education-during-pandemic-digital-divide-wreaks-damage-2030637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Star<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;Distance learning programs, in general, remain ineffective. Students said they don&#8217;t have TVs, laptops, computers and smartphones.&#8221; And about 25% of teachers fear a further surge in school dropouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-pressure-on-the-government\"><strong>Pressure on the government<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also notes that 75% of students would like to return to school as soon as possible, while 80% of education NGO officials are lobbying the government to ensure that children&#8217;s right to learn is guaranteed. Bangladesh authorities closed all schools of all grades on March 17. In recent months, the closures have been extended from time to time: the latest decision, which dates back to last week, decreed the closure <a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/international\/bangladesh-extends-closure-all-educational-institutions-till-feb-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until 14 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/international\/bangladesh-extends-closure-all-educational-institutions-till-feb-14\">February<\/a>. CAMPE NGO director Rasheda K. Chowdhury told <em>UcaNews<\/em>, &#8220;It is evident how students are being harmed, so teachers and parents want to see schools and universities reopen soon. The government must take a quick decision, otherwise students will continue to be harmed.&#8221; The idea of the authorities is to reopen gradually, between the second half of February and the first half of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-s-worse-in-rural-areas\"><strong>It&#8217;s worse in rural areas<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But a year without school represents a social and educational disaster. Ranjan Purification, headmaster of a Catholic school, St. Mary&#8217;s Junior School, in Bandarban district, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucanews.com\/news\/digital-divide-forces-poor-bangladeshi-students-out-of-school\/91122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believes that<\/a> the situation in rural areas is even worse than the report portrays. Teachers at her school have gone to great lengths to engage students after the closures, even making house-calls, but Purification fears 10-15% of pupils may drop out. &#8220;If the data is true,&#8221; commented Jyoti F. Gomes, secretary of the Bangladesh Catholic Education Board Trust, &#8220;I think it is better to open all educational institutions as soon as possible.&#8221; ASAP\u2014before the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/it\/la-religione-del-grande-reset-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;new normal&#8221;<\/a> does irreparable damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh, with students out of school since March, is booming with dropouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"Bangladesh, with students out of school since March, is booming with dropouts","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,805],"tags":[8143,8129,8142],"class_list":["post-51443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-foreground","tag-bangladesh-2","tag-foreground","tag-school-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where &quot;distance learning&quot; increases child labor - IFN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Bangladesh, where students have been home since March because of the pandemic, dropouts are booming. 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