Editorial | Jabs hold key to more openings at Hong Kong schools

  • Students will be returning to face-to-face classes next month as long as at least 90 per cent have been vaccinated twice against Covid-19

Online learning is no substitute in the long run for face-to-face learning and the social discipline and interaction of normal school life. Photo: May Tse

Repeated school closures have been one of the most controversial elements of Hong Kong’s tough anti-Covid strategy. Online learning is a relatively recent solution.

It is not clear how parents, teachers and students would have coped for so long without it. But in the long run it is no substitute for face-to-face learning and the social discipline and interaction of normal school life.

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