Children facing a learning crisis, say experts

Home schooled: Larrobis, a first grade student, practising her writing exercises at her home in Quezon City, Manila, ahead of another school year of remote lessons in the country due to the pandemic. — AFP

Classrooms here were silent on Monday as millions of school children hunkered down at home for a second year of remote lessons that experts fear will worsen an educational “crisis”.

While nearly every country in the world has partially or fully reopened schools to in-person classes, the Philippines has kept them closed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN says.