School reopening Tokyo's junior and senior high school students LINE consultation increased June 17 12:08
The number of consultations received this month when the junior high school and high school students in Tokyo resumed their school this month when the school resumed at the window to consult with LINE about career, bullying, and friendship problems, etc. I understand. The Tokyo Education Counseling Center, which accepts counseling, analyzes that the spread of the new coronavirus has caused a long period of suspension of school and has various effects.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Education Counseling Center accepts consultation through LINE for middle school and high school students in Tokyo.
According to the center, 175 consultations were received in the two weeks from the 1st to the 14th of this month when many schools were reopened after the declaration of emergency was lifted. This is 1.8 times the same period last year.
The breakdown was the most common with 53 consultations about friendships, followed by 20 concerns about career paths and 16 concerns about physical and mental health.
Specifically, there are consultations such as being unable to make new friends because the school was reopened after class change, worried about the career ahead of the exam, and motivated. .
A person in charge of the center calls for “the school closure has been affected for about 3 months including spring break, which has various effects.
The account name of LINE is "Consultation Hotline @ Tokyo", and it is accepted every day from 5 pm to 9:30 pm.