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1. I see countless kids do online internship even though their law school timing overlap. This automatically refers the work ethic gets compromised in both the internship as well as the classes. Mostly classes as students know they can cheat their way through exams. I come from a T1 NLU and I can say without a doubt that the quality among my peers as well as my seniors has degraded. Nobody bothers studying anymore because you don't need to, people who used to barely pass are getting in 70s. This is horrible for legal education overall.
2. Secondly, quality of the papers, publications has degraded significantly in our law school. We stand nowhere compared to our seniors mainly because there were nobody to guide us. The best part of law school is not the teachers or the resources but rather the opportunity to learn form your seniors. Let me give you an example: Most of our decent 5th years already had published atleast a journal or a paper in reputed blogs in their second year itself. Some of them published in international blogs but now though most of my peers barely have any decent publications and they publish their blogs, articles in IPleaders showcasing how the quality has deteriorated. This is mainly because we never got to interact with our seniors, we never got to do what they could. Few of the seniors I know learned the art of writing from Rhodes Scholars. We could never do that due to law school being online.
Not to mention the mooting culture has suffered too, ofcourse there are more moots we can attend but then quality of drafting has declined.
3. The whole online education significantly affects the mental health. To sit infront of a computer for prolonged periods of time severely affects our eye sight as well as our health. Not to mention a lot of times we can't understand what our teachers us teaching because of issues related to online connectivity.
4. Online education immensely favours the privileged ones. I have lot of friends who come from remote locations and a stable internet connection isn't accessible to them. A lot of times they miss classes because their internet isn't good enough.
5. Lastly, law school is not all about studying, writing and competing. It is also about enjoying your hostel life, the late night walks with your friends and the moronic pranks. The feeling of having a late night meal with your friends after a hectic moot, exam is unparalleled. The fests, the heartbreaks, the first phase of independence all of it gets lost online.
PS: We like it or not Covid is here to stay, we can take precautions but then we will have to get on with our lives. Offline law school just has too many benifits that can't be foregone.
Welcome back students
People having fest on campus without masks
Even if they open - it will be closed for the massive Tsunami like Third Wave of Covid.
Offline classes - Especially in an NLU or Symbiosis is stupid at the best and dangerous at the worst.
College campuses and hostels are not like regular offices.
In law school, the teachers are happy to balance their personal life alongside this. Know a lot of them who have moved back home with their elderly parents. We are doing fine as we are. I know a lot of students who are introverted started participating in class because it's much easier to unmute than physically scream before the whole class. Ofcourse there are a lot of downsides but the advantages weigh then out. Do we really need to return to offline classes?