Name: Oja, Wenalyn D.

Juvenile Delinquency and Justice System

BSCRIM B2019 Prof. Renel P. Cruz

Reflective Essay on Education, Policy, and Juvenile Delinquents: A Mixed Method

Investigation During the COVID-19 by Coker (2020)

I. INTRODUCTION

In such competitive world, better education is very necessary for all to go ahead in life and get success
as school education plays a great role in everyone's life. It helps a lot in lessening the challenges of the
difficult life. The knowledge gained throughout the education period enables each and every individual
confident about their life as it opens various doors to the opportunities of achieving better prospects in
life to promote career growth. But since the COVID-19 pandemic broke in 2019, it resulted in schools
shutting all across the world. As a result, education has changed dramatically with the distinctive
emergence of online and remote learning, in which education is conducted remotely and on digital
platforms. With this being implemented, there are a lot of challenges to overcome in the perspective of
both teachers and learners, and why is it considered a poor replacement especially for Juvenile
Delinquents.

Even before covid-19 pandemic has started, face-to-face learning has become not the only option in the
education field for the past two decades. However, educators and students have given a greater
emphasis on the use of and remote learning and learning, particularly since the surge in Covid-19 cases.
For those who do have access to the right technology, there is evidence that learning online can be
more effective in a number of ways. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of online and remote learning still
varies amongst students, teachers and juvenile delinquents.

II. BODY

The quality of learning during covid 19 was a major concern when schools transitioned from face to face
to online and remote learning. The abrupt transition to online learning has raised several issues that
have not been resolved and this hinders disadvantaged students such as Juvenile Delinquents from
realising their potential in learning as they were tagged as "Population at risk" already in education
during pandemic. As a group, juvenile offenders have a long history of not doing so well at school and
getting a poor, inconsistent evaluation. However, there is no mention of significant debates or studies
demonstrating their performance during and before the pandemic, nor that of early data indicating that
juveniles involved in the criminal justice system may be marginalized and unknown.

Considering the alternative of no schooling, online and remote classes has been an important tool to
sustain skills development during school closures. In spite of being a desirable option, the sudden switch
lead to sub-optimal results compared than in the traditional Face-to-Face Classes and may result in a
large loss in a child's entire schooling experience. Most schools only reproduce what happens physically
in a traditional face to face class and only recreated the practices online without achieving desired
result, still practicing one teacher, one classroom policy during online class. Even educators feel the
same as they spoke about the inability and describe the nature of it as being ineffective, having the
feeling of losing professionalism, being mediocre at its best, and being unsupportive. In addition,
instructors were in a crisis due to the pressure of attempting to acquire new technologies and
operational methods, which negatively impacted equality programs and attendance. Although it seems
that many students are not participating in this kind of instruction, there are some students who are
finding success with it. Some individuals may not show up at all, others may be present, but they are not
submitting work or performing no more than the absolute bare minimum. Most students attended
school without even demonstrating learning.

Frequently, interventions and behaviors lacked fidelity and stability. Academic performance during the
transition from face-to-face (F2F) to remote and online learning should be that schools must change the
present style of operation and destroy the current structure of power in order to create a system that
effectively raises the accomplishment of all students. The system would be driven by a new community
in which personnel, planning, and the school day are innovatively organized. The shift to remote and
online learning must refocus the aim of instructors to enable all students succeed via meaningful
relationships, defined expectations, and an engaging and interactive environment as online and
remote education produced significantly inferior results.

III. CONCLUSION
There is no doubt that the pandemic has drastically affected the efficiency of our education
system. With this dramatic change away from the classroom in many regions of the globe, some are
questioning if the adoption of online and remote learning would continue to survive post-pandemic, and
how such a shift might effect the international education industry. Since lockdowns may be reinstated in
the future until fully effective vaccines or therapeutics becomes available that will eradicate COVID-19
completely, it is of the utmost importance for everyone to reflect on the main challenges that students,
teachers, and juvenile delinquents have encountered in adapting to this phase and to intervene in order
to fully harness the potential of this transition. The efforts in creating methods, collaborative learning
environment and approach are also crucial.

In conclusion, educators and interactions, not technology and devices, should drive effective distance
learning. Numerous national organizations have also devised frameworks for reorganizing and
enhancing education, thus schools can also adopt a new system of "Teachers Without Walls" to work on
the improvement on engagement, interaction and tutoring quality to students. Favorable outcomes are
attainable provided instructors are competent and students are keen to learn; otherwise, education
would be ineffective regardless of the approach used. Moreover, students' attitudes and inclinations
toward learning are crucial determinants of their academic success.