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THE STUDENT'S REALITY.


School to me was desks and tables,
It was seats and lockers,
Classrooms and staffrooms,
Bells to signal the beginning and end of every lesson,
Tests and examinations written on pieces of paper,
Strokes of cane for an undone assignment or a failed test,
School to me was working with my friends to win a competition and bring back the trophy for the school,
It was going on excursions to widen our knowledge on what had been taught in the classroom,
To me, this was school.

And then one night I slept.
Opening my eyes the next morning, everything had changed. School became something entirely different.
School became Laptops and ipads,
It became mobile phones and tablets.
Beginning and end of lesson signals went from bells to alarms,
Physical became virtual and virtual became the new normal.
At first, I couldn't grapple with it, but we were groomed on the way to go about it.
Put in this situation by a stranger whose last name was nineteen.
I...