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Despite in schools girls and boys are given equal opportunities, there are some factors that affect female students that lead them to disengage from education. Reasons for the disengagement from education by girls are poverty, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, harmful traditional practices like initiation rites, and gender-based violence.
The School Nutrition Association also concluded that they were serving about 80% fewer meals than they would normally. [8] Potential reasons for this drop in school meal usage were lack of parental availability (as they could not visit food sites due to work conflicts) and public health concerns.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools across the world began conducting classes via videotelephony software such as Zoom, Google Classroom and/or Google Meet. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has created a framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 pandemic for distance learning. [106]
A total of 270 million school days were missed because of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic, new figures showed, prompting fears over the impact on exam results in 2022.
“Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. ... the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons ...
Yet amid growing concern that the pandemic and its widespread disruptions to schools could have a devastating, long-lasting toll on students’ […] Most Students Have Experienced Mental Health ...
By the end of March 2020, UNESCO estimated that over 89% of the world's student population was out of school or university due to closures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. [25] According to UNICEF, at the peak of the pandemic, 188 countries imposed countrywide school closures, affecting more than 1.6 billion children and youth.
These preventive measures such as social-distancing and self-isolation prompted the widespread closure of primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools in more than 120 countries. As of 23 March 2020, more than 1.2 billion learners were out of school due to school closures in response to COVID-19. [8]