
Digital divide affects schooling of special children
The Hindu
50% of 25,000 such children in Kerala could be outside the ambit of online education
Every morning for over a year now, Meenakshi (name changed), a 16-year-old special child with cerebral palsy from Pachalam, has been putting on her uniform when it is time to go to school. And when it eventually dawns on her that there is no school to go, she turns violent. While last year the recorded class sessions engaged her for the time they lasted, this year she is even stripped of that little privilege as classes turned live.More Related News

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