What If School Came to You? SCABT’s Answer to a Broken Model
In 2015, every morning before the sun rose, Bilal, a 13-year-old student in Lyari; would leave home with a bag heavier than his body. He’d squeeze into an overcrowded bus, shoulder to shoulder with adults twice his size, gripping rusted rails as the city around him buzzed into motion. On a good day, it took him 90 minutes to reach school. By the time the first bell rang, he was already worn out. Bilal’s story wasn’t unique. It was the reality for millions of students. Back then, education didn’t begin with curiosity. It began with a commute. Your school depended on your neighborhood. Your tutor depended on how far you could travel. Your dream, more often than not, depended on your family’s ability to pay for the fuel. Smartphones existed, but they were not in children’s hands. Internet was slow, patchy, and expensive. In most homes, if there was a computer, it was old and used mostly for games or printing photos. The idea of an “online school” of quality education available from...