My Young Student's Views on The Coronavirus Pandemic
Photo credit: Freepik My student, a thirteen-year-old bespectacled cute boy from South Korea talked to me about his opinions on how the spread of Covid-19 is being dealt with. He was agitated to talk, and so I set aside the lesson I prepared for him that night. It was his privilege speech. I opted to deviate from my normal lesson style and just let him talk--or rant, to be more accurate. Below are his opinions on the matter. For the sake of clarity, some grammatical adjustments were made but these are the sentences that he said, so I'm using quotation marks. "Teacher, I think, from the beginning, the government should have banned all flights from other countries. The government should have stopped the visitors from coming to our country. My country could have prevented infections. The deaths could have been avoided." "At that time when the virus hadn't reached other countries yet, when the majority of the countries in the world had zer