The metropolitan area has also been attending school since the 21st… 7,000 school doors were opened in the replica

Teachers are fixing desks on the 15th at a high school in Dongjak-gu, Seoul. / News1 © News1

Students from the metropolitan area, who have only been taking distance classes for a while after the reappearance of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), will resume classes from the 21st. On the 26th of last month, a remote class on a large scale (except for high school 3) it was changed to a large-scale remote classroom.

Even if school classes are resumed, students going to school at the same time are limited to less than one-third of all students in kindergarten, elementary school, and high school, and less than two-thirds in high school. . This is because the ‘Enhanced Congestion Minimization Measure’ will apply until October 11, when the special quarantine ends during the Chuseok holiday.

According to the Ministry of Education, there are around 7,000 schools in the metropolitan area, including 2,000 schools in Seoul, 800 schools in Incheon and 4,200 schools in Gyeonggi province, which resume classes on this day. It represents approximately 40% of the 2,740 schools across the country.

As schools in the metropolitan area resume school classes, voices are mounting that the school’s quarantine network needs to be managed more closely. This is because the Chuseok holiday for five days from the 30th will start from the 30th, and the Corona 19 comeback aftershock will continue. As of 0:00 a.m. on the 20th, the number of daily confirmed cases across the country was 82, falling below 100 in 38 days after 56 people came out on August 13. New confirmed cases from 3 to 20 in the order of 195 → 198 → 168 → 167 → 119 → 136 → 156 → 151 → 176 → 136 → 121 → 109 → 106 → 113 → 153 → 126 → 110 → 82. It is slowly decreasing .

However, it is a situation that cannot be reassured, as the number of “confirmed obscured patients” whose route of infection is not clear is gradually increasing. Of the 1,798 new confirmed cases reported to quarantine authorities from 6th to 20th, 493, or 27.4%, of the infection route have not been identified.

It is also a matter of concern that there are constantly cases of confirmed students and faculty members. After starting school classes sequentially from High School 3 on May 20, 536 students and 115 teachers were confirmed across the country as of the 17th.

Additionally, small-scale infection cases continued to emerge, with 8 additional students on the 14th, 2 students on the 15th, 8 students and 2 faculty members on the 16th, and 3 students and 2 faculty members on the 17th.

Parental responses to the resumption of school classes in the metropolitan area are mixed. To solve problems such as the decline in basic education due to long distance classes, the widening gaps between students and the burden of care, it is believed that school attendance should be increased and that school attendance should be minimized. classes until the corona19 situation clearly stabilizes.

In the case of the non-metropolitan area, where the second stage of social distancing lasts for a week until the 27th, the reinforced density measures will be applied as in the metropolitan area until October 11, when the special quarantine period ends. for the Chuseok holiday. However, depending on the infectious disease situation by region, the density standard can be relaxed in consultation with the quarantine authorities and the Ministry of Education.

Consequently, the Jeju, Gangwon and Gyeongbuk-do Bureaux of Education decided to increase school attendance to two-thirds of the total, regardless of school level.

In the case of the Daegu City Bureau of Education, since the 14th, the density standard of all schools has been relaxed to two-thirds and classes have been expanded.

The Gwangju area, which once had a quarantine measure equivalent to the third stage of social distancing due to the outbreak of sporadic group infections, resumed school classes from the 14th.

Until the 29th, elementary and secondary schools will operate classes by one-third and secondary schools within two-thirds. After the Chuseok break, the school plans to expand classes by examining the infectious disease situation.

(Seoul = News 1)