Letter to BS: Schools, colleges should be reopened with maximum caution

Following the easing of lockdown restrictions, life is now slowly limping back to the new normal, but there is no end to the uncertainty surrounding the opening of schools and higher educational institutions in the country. While educational institutions have readily embraced online learning, it cannot be presumed to have benefited students from every strata of the society. As a country with a yawning digital divide and no social security architecture, the level of success of online learning is dependent on the ease of digital access and the ability of parents to support e-learning at home. Earlier, the enabling classroom