India, a giant virtual classroom on WhatsApp

India, a giant virtual classroom on WhatsApp
India, a giant virtual classroom on WhatsApp

The application is the preferred tool of teachers to overcome the closure of classes, almost total since March. Millions of students drop out, threatening the country’s development, 25% of whose inhabitants are under 15 years old.

By Emmanuel Derville

Almost all schools have been closed in India since March, due to the coronavirus. To continue the lessons, two out of three teachers use WhatsApp. Idrees Abbas / ZUMA PRESS / MAXPPP

In New Delhi

Rajeshwari day begins in the evening. A principal of Shri Padmashree High School in Bangalore, in the south of India, this lively woman in her forties then has the lessons sent to her students by video by WhatsApp for the next morning. “Children no longer have the phone after 9 a.m. because their parents take it away before going to work», She explains. The hardest part begins when you have to call each student and check that he has understood the course. “If the child does not answer or if he cannot answer the questions, we call him back later by videoconference on WhatsApp», Says Rajeshwari.

Almost all schools have been closed in India since March, due to the coronavirus. To continue classes, two out of three teachers use WhatsApp, according to a spring poll by Central Square Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi. Education is crucial for the future of the country: more than one in four Indians

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