“Poor, poor children.
They haven’t seen.
Proper schooling.
For three years!”
It has been a while since.
Schools were fully functioning.
In front-line cities.
Like Zaporizhzhia.
Where remote education has been.
In place with brief interruptions.
Since Covid restrictions were.
Introduced in spring 2020.
“This isn’t normal schooling.”
Says the head of.
The Perspektyva school.
In Zaporizhzhia.
“Poor, poor children.
They haven’t seen.
Proper schooling.
For three years!”
Distance learning makes it.
Much more difficult.
To motivate children.
Or to test their knowledge.
He describes how.
He has been missing.
The peaceful sight of.
Children going to school.
Something you can.
Only see further away.
From the front line.
“I got tearful.”
“When I visited western Ukraine.
Last year and saw.
Children going to school.
With their little bags.”
“It’s awful to think.
That our children.
Don’t have this opportunity.”
“I got tearful.”
“Poor, poor children.
They haven’t seen.
Proper schooling.
For three years!”
But whatever impact.
Distance learning may have.
On education in Ukraine.
All agree that.
Teachers, officials.
And parents.
All agree that.
Safety comes first.
“Poor, poor children.
They haven’t seen.
Proper schooling.
For three years!”
*Because I read “Ukraine war: Back to school under Russian attacks” by Vitaly Shevchenko on 1 Sep 2023, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem as a story of Kostyantyn.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
