![]() When several staff members at Dubai College, one of the UAE’s oldest independent schools, tested positive this week, parents with professional teaching qualifications volunteered to cover their shifts. Luckily few are better practiced at the art of adaptation than parents. If the 2020-2021 school year was one of a great shift to remote learning, this year’s will be one of constant adapting and readapting to society’s unpredictable post-Covid-19 recovery. ![]() But as The National reported, more than 30 private schools in Dubai alone were forced to switch to distance learning for the next week, after several members of the schools’ communities had either tested positive for Covid-19 or come into close contact with someone who had. ![]() Monday’s return to classes in the UAE was meant to be a fresh start in many ways – the start of a new year, a new term and a new Monday-to-Friday teaching schedule in most of the country’s schools. Two years on from the start of the pandemic, education in most countries remains a stop-start affair. Getting there is critical, given how many formative experiences young children have missed out on, but it is not without huge challenges. The youngest pupils have come to know only a socially distanced school life that toggles between physical and virtual classrooms the steady reintroduction of in-person teaching in the UAE and other countries is an effort at “back to normal” for parents and the school system, but a new normal for them. Many of the children who went back to school in the UAE yesterday hardly remember life before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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