The pandemic, which has affected people of all professions,
except those who provide essential services, has demonstrated the importance of
distance education, a way of teaching, for which the majority of teachers,
parents and students were not prepared, and had to improvise overnight. While
the transition to homeschooling and e-learning has been smooth in some places,
in others it has been disorganized, with no guidance for students and parents.
Rivka Oratz, an esteemed educator and administrator who
currently serves as the Principal at Lev Bais Yaakov, a private, all-girls,
Jewish school located in Brooklyn, NY, believes that it is difficult to determine
the long-term effects because duration of the shutdown depends on the spread of
the pandemic in the country.
