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The Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world, including Indonesia, has prompted changes in education policy, from a face-to-face model to a distance learning model. Distance learning through online media has generated a lot of educational discrimination. Schools in urban areas are generally able to design online learning well because they are supported by smartphone facilities owned by all students and the ease of internet networks. However, in rural schools, online learning is quite tricky because not all students have smartphones and internet network problems. This study aims to determine the implementation of learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic in private schools. This research is qualitative research with a case study approach with cyclic analysis at the Junior High School of Muhammadiyah Tonjong. This study found that online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic made the world of education experience discrimination. Online learning at the Junior High School of Muhammadiyah Tonjong during the Covid-19 Pandemic ran without structured planning, and incomplete smartphone devices make learning ineffective. It causes the quality of students in the mastery of teaching materials is less than optimal and reduces student achievement. Optimization of online learning activities is carried out by assigning individual and group assignments to all students. In practical learning, students are requested to make videos in groups.

There are many myths existed in some areas in Indonesia that forbid government officers entering in certain places. This leads to the development of those areas blocked. This research explores and compares between the myth of Kiskendo cave and Betetor village in Kendal district Central Java including how does the origin of those myths, what are the effects of those myths to the surrounding community, and the shifting of its meaning in the society. This study uses phenomenology approach, and data was gathered through in-depth interviews and observation. Analysis was conducted during and after field work using descriptive analysis. Results of this study illustrate that structure of the myth story of Kiskendo cave comes from the story of pewayangan, while the myth of Betetor village is from the story of Kiai Rujak Beling Sabuk Alu who was chased by Dutch army and he enters to Betetor village. The myth of Kiskendo cave does not affect on the government officers’ attitude including police, army, and civil servant. In addition, this myth does not influence to the social change in the village. On the other hand, the myth of Betetor village influence on the government officers’ attitudes, they are afraid to enter the village. However, nowadays they are no longer afraid to enter the village; even some residents become civil servants.