As I scroll on my social media accounts, seeing people
commenting how Covid-19 change their lives, and by reading online news published by different outlets, I found out that there is a major disparities that every individual in the field of education experienced before and during Online News and Comments pandemic. Mostly, students and teachers said that before pandemic, going to school, learning lessons inside the classroom and teaching students are just few challenging experiences that they’ve encounter. But now with the pandemic, it made more teaching and learning difficult, and also hinder students to go to school. Relating the said situations in critical race theory or CRT, it reflects the idea of interest convergence, a tenets of racism, due to the fact that preventative measures are being inhibited causing the traditional face-to-face classes turned into online class.
Hearing and watching the news about the Filipinos
challenging experience amidst pandemic in radio and television respectively, opened my eyes to what disparities they life have before and after the Covid-19 Radio and Television pandemic. Many people said that before pandemic their only problem is going to work. But now with our difficult situation causing lots of businesses stop operating that made lessen the opportunities for the Filipino people. Moreover, causing them lost their jobs. Reflecting this to critical race theory, I have realized that, racism exist in this situation due to the fact that people lose their jobs because they’re discriminated with their skills.
With this category, I only asked my parents since my
brother is just 5 years old. So, my parents told me that one of the greatest challenge they have experience before pandemic is that to think where to get money to feed and support our family’s needs. While during pandemic, it Parents and siblings enhance the level of difficulty of that challenging experience because it added more problems, such as being paranoid about the virus. Basing from the critical race theory, with them being paranoid with their surroundings made them a racist as they judge other people due to their what if’s. Like what if this person is a carrier of the virus so on and so forth.