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Concerns over kids' future amid failure of remote learning

Relatives of Annika Torres (right) watching as her name is displayed during her online graduation in Santo Tomas in the Philippine province of Pampanga earlier this month.
Relatives of Annika Torres (right) watching as her name is displayed during her online graduation in Santo Tomas in the Philippine province of Pampanga earlier this month. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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Millions of Filipino students have spent the past year cooped up at home, learning mostly through their computers and phones, or through printed lessons their parents pick up from the school.

Some 9,000 schools in the country have been shut since March last year as the government pushed for remote learning.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 31, 2021, with the headline Concerns over kids' future amid failure of remote learning. Subscribe