Remote Schooling Decreasing Levels of Anxiety in Children and Teens

Things are already running differently during this pandemic, there are some positive and negative both changes are observed in people. Routines are different, shopping is different, work-life has changed, meetups got short, and there is no way to stay out late at night. Well, along with all these things, children are enjoying online classes and remote schooling. In both teens and children, there is a massive change in behaviors and routines, in some way it is positive, and sometimes it is negative because it will make things difficult for the children to adapt to the previous routine again.

According to the studies, it has been noticed that there are around 1000+ students who are going through less anxiety due to remote learning in all this Covid-19 situation. Before the pandemic, there were around 54% of girls from the age group of 13-14 years, who were at a high risk of anxiety, but during a pandemic, the graph dropped by 10%. There is a drop in figures from 18-26% in the boys of the same age group. Now they have more opportunities to communicate with the teachers about their issues and a good connection with the school staff.

Before lockdown, there was a great impact of schooling has been observed on the mental health of teenagers, which could be due to the school staff and the environment. Feeling anxious because of the responsiveness of the school management and teacher is common in a student before the remote schooling starts.

It has been expected that there must be an increase in anxiety among pupils because of all this going on, but there is a positive change that happens to the mental health of teenagers and children. This drop has made parents raise the question, ‘how the school environment was affecting their children and their well-being’.

Usually, parents think that, when their children were unwilling to go to school, the only reason was they don’t want to get out of bed, always wants to play and grudging their homework. But this all is not the only reason. There is a significant effect of responsiveness of teachers to student’s queries that usually make them anxious and worried. That’s the actual reason they do not want to do homework as they don’t know how to do that.

The drop in stress level in lockdown was unbelievable. The autism spectrum has reduced to a significant extent as well. They have more sleep now, as they might have when they go to school, but that sleep includes the anxiety of malingering. As they are less anxious, they perform well and handle online classes and learning more effectively.

They might miss their friends, they are happy and calm, but still, there are things that they are not learning. Social behavior and basic ethics are missing. Still, parents can work on it. This study isn’t promoting remote schooling, however, it focuses on the lack of school management and teachers that should be considered, as the statistics of anxiety in children is already high, which is not good for the well-being of children.