I was reading a piece in DW (Deutsche Welle News) and came across a post signalling preparatory steps the government and educational stakeholders are embarking upon to have their schools resume even amidst Covid-19.

Here are few findings:

1. Training of teachers digitally. While some countries/people are sitting at home all through, Germany teachers are undergoing digital trainings.

2. Pupils are divided in groups they call "cohorts" this might mean different scheduling for each groups. The aim is to avoid quarantining the whole school in case of new infection but only the 'cohorts'.

3. Government already purchasing laptops in response to the developments. They have come to the realization that digital education will see them through this period. Here, students can borrow and use the laptops so as to ensure all are carried along (both poor and rich).

4. Government subscribes to commercial digital learning platform (software). Even before Covid-19, this softwares have been existing. These are proprietary softwares and requires subscription fees which are expensive. Government here values education and are willing to purchase them for schools and avail them the infrastructure.

5. The scare of pupils infecting the parents at home is not that pronounced. This is quite controversial though, however, some doctors there counteract this claim, a research comprising teachers and pupils found no single 'acute' case. One doctor argued, children aren't particularly prone to the disease or are they pose to passing it over.

My conclusions:

1. We need to think ahead and not beclouded by present circumstance. Relevant educational stakeholders can hold virtual talks on the way forward.

2. We should seek out ways to maneuver the situation and not wait until 'mother-nature' smiles towards us.

3. Several strategies can be adopted to minimize or eliminate infections at schools. At least, we can start preparing schools handlers on that instead of waiting until 'the schools resumes'.