Resume classes at an elementary school in Tokyo, watching children from distributed schools in the community 11:14 on June 1st
Many elementary schools in Tokyo have resumed classes from the 1st in the form of "distributed school", but in Mitaka City, large-scale watching activities are being conducted throughout the region to protect safety during school. .
When resuming classes in "distributed school", children are usually attending a small number of people at different times, so there are concerns that they may be involved in traffic accidents or crimes. For this reason, elementary schools in Mitaka City cooperate with police and their parents to carry out large-scale watching activities in the region.
Of these, at the municipal fourth elementary school, on the morning of the first day, more than 100, half of the children in lower grades, went to school, and about 20 people including police officers, teachers, and guardians including white police members watched over the school route. Especially for first-year students who have hardly ever attended school, they carefully called out that they should not stick out from the white line on the roadway side and be careful of suspicious persons. It is said that this kind of watching will also take place at school in the afternoon.
Keiko Kuroki, the principal of Mitaka City No. 4 Elementary School, said, “It is hard for the police and local people to cooperate and watch over the situation while it is difficult for adults to reach the school due to decentralized school attendance.”
Masakazu Kobayashi, Chief of Life Safety Division, Mitaka Police Department, said, "If children move during unusual hours, the risk of incidents and accidents increases, so we will work with local people to take measures."