What will school look like in the "new reality"?

Well, actually it's hard to judge anything here, although I don't think we're going back to "old normal", as you call it, anytime soon. Why do I feel this way? Take a look at the sanitary regime, according to which matriculation or vocational exams are to be carried out. The ubiquitous disinfectant liquid, the order to keep a distance of at least 2 m from students, the need to come to school in a mask with the possibility of taking it off during the exam ...

In addition, the Minister of Education, Mr. Piontkowski, says that remote learning works very well. In addition, multi-million investments in equipment and technologies for online learning are planned. All this indicates that the authorities will probably want to maintain remote education. What for? Because of savings. By transferring learning online, you can fire many teachers, do not pay for electricity and heating classrooms and probably give up many other expenses that are associated with conducting lessons and classes in a traditional, stationary mode. In Italy, it has already been ordered that from the new school year classes will be held half and half, i.e. 50% of the time at school and the same amount at home via the Internet.

To sum up, in my opinion, the school we have known so far will not return, even if the state of the epidemic is lifted. Is it good for society, education, children and families? As you yourself notice - and you are certainly not the only one - learning via the Internet is not effective and does not have a positive effect on educational progress, health or emotional stability. It remains to be hoped that my predictions will not come true and the school reality will return to what it was before the announcement of the pandemic.