Starting a new school year is always full of emotions and especially during a pandemic.

For nearly 77 million children, the pandemic has taken away their classrooms for the past 18 months. School children worldwide have lost 1.8 trillion hours and counting of in-person learning due to COVID-19 lockdowns.

Part of the schools started teaching at classrooms, other part continues the distance learning. But children in every city or village are looking forward to meet their friends and teachers in person (UNICEF, 2021).

We asked adolescents, teachers and parents to tell what they feel, how their lives have changed and advantages and challenges of school reopening.