The Coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we go about our day: shopping, eating and most importantly for this article it changed the way we learn. In the course of one weekend, we for example, as students of the German School of Guatemala, had to change our whole routine and transition to online school and it wasn’t just us, the whole world and its students had to do the same. While this is extremely hard judging from a psychologic or pedagogic view, it has become a real burden from an economic position. Students around the globe are starting to wonder whether schools and other institutions should start giving back to them.
En las últimas semanas ha habido gran discusión alrededor de Alemania y su repuesta contra el COVID-19. Muchos de sus habitantes han salido a protestar a las calles de las ciudades grandes como Stuttgart y Berlín, y se ha formado una verdadera red de controversia entre los ciudadanos. Como estudiante del Colegio Alemán, aun viviendo en Guatemala, me interesó mucho por la política de este mismo país y creo que deberíamos aprender del gobierno alemán, ya que su reacción ante la crisis ha ayudado a salvar miles de vidas. Por esta misma razón muchos científicos de todo el mundo han felicitado al gobierno federal por su manejo de esta pandemia. Sin embargo, es válido cuestionarse, ¿Alemania ha actuado correctamente?
Let me set a scenario- you are a kindergarten teacher; your young students are playing outside. Suddenly one of them falls and happens to have a scratch. After comforting him for a while, you realize he needs a band aid to protect his wound. Subsequently, other children claim that they want to be treated equally, thus they demand a band aid for themselves too, even though they are not hurt. This picture can be easily associated to the current political climate of the United States. Whilst the #BlackLivesMatter movement is demanding for the accountability of police officers involved in the heinous assassinations of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many other victims, the opposition has claimed that the movement’s intent is to dismantle the police and create an anarchical society...