According to media reports, the Liwan District Education Bureau of Guangzhou City recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Returning to School for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic in the Spring Semester of 2020 in Liwan District" ("Opinions"). "Opinions" pointed out that to ensure that teachers and students wear masks while in school; students are not allowed to take lunch breaks in off-campus hosting institutions; if it is not possible to guarantee a distance of at least one meter, it is recommended to cancel lunch breaks, and appropriate early afternoon class time; parents are advised to prepare sufficient The amount of disposable masks, two per day, at least two weeks of usage.
"You must wear a mask throughout the lunch break." This is part of public opinion's interpretation of campus prevention and control measures. From the literal meaning of "Opinions", it seems to be the case, because it is necessary to ensure that teachers and students wear masks while they are in school, and at the same time, they must not take lunch breaks in off-campus trustees. In other words, they must wear masks to take lunch breaks in schools.
For the lunch break, you must wear a mask. Everyone's opinions are different. Some people think that this is the need for prevention and control of the epidemic. Teachers and students should cooperate as much as possible. Others think that the prevention and control measures are "a little overdone" and fall into "formalism". School teachers, parents and students are very tired.
After the epidemic prevention and control have entered the normalization, the school must do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. This has no objection, but it requires scientific evaluation and precise implementation, and can not be formalized.
Earlier, there was a video online, in which half of the children were eating, and half of them were wearing masks to watch meals. Netizens ridiculed that this was too cruel to the children who watched the meal. The school is doing this to achieve a "peak-eating" and prevent students from taking off their masks at the same time, but does this arrangement have the effect of "peak-eating"? Or just give people the impression that "the prevention and control measures implemented by the school are very strict"?
Rather than requiring students to wear masks throughout the lunch break and maintain a distance of more than one meter, it is better to cancel the lunch break as a whole, and appropriately advance the class time in the afternoon. This is easier to implement and will also be understood by teachers and students. Objectively speaking, under the epidemic prevention and control environment, if the lunch break continues, especially if some students go to the off-campus trusteeship institution for lunch breaks, I am afraid that it will increase the difficulty of epidemic prevention and control. It must change with time and adapt to local conditions.
For example, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province decided that after the third year of high school, all personnel are allowed to enter and not be allowed to go out of the closed management. It is also understood and supported by most teachers, students, parents and public opinion, because the pressure of local epidemic prevention and control However, the third grade of high school has the practical demands of starting school. It is helpless to balance the prevention and control of epidemic situation and the resumption of classes. This changed the form of school management in the past, but as long as it is scientific, reasonable, and conducive to epidemic prevention and control, most people will understand it.
In general, most of the epidemic prevention and control measures adopted by schools around the country are reasonable, and they are also cooperated and implemented by students. For example, students are required to maintain "social distance" and usually do non-contact homework, do not work in classes or get together. , No contact, no chase. However, there are some controversial prevention and control measures, such as whether it is necessary to wear a mask. At present, only Zhejiang Province has made it clear that after fully evaluating the conditions for returning to school, together with strict implementation of the health code + temperature access for campus access and a set of mechanisms for daily health monitoring, based on learning efficiency considerations, proper ventilation should be maintained in the classroom Under the conditions, students do not need to wear masks. At the same time, students are advised to wear masks on the way to and from school, and prepare masks for use in school bags.
Whether students are required to wear masks on campus throughout the school year is indeed a problem. For the children in the lower grades, the personal protection awareness is poor, even if they are required to wear it, it is difficult to achieve the protective effect. In addition, if you put a lot of effort on checking whether students are wearing masks, and pay attention to who is wearing it or not, it will also affect learning efficiency. This issue requires scientific decision-making based on listening to the opinions of experts in epidemic prevention and control. Instead of doing more, the finer the better, you have to have a suitable degree.
After the epidemic prevention and control have become normalized, the campus epidemic prevention and control after the school starts must also establish a long-term mechanism. This requires avoiding superficial articles. At the same time, public opinion also needs to have reasonable expectations for the prevention and control of the epidemic situation after the school starts. It cannot be required that a confirmed case does not appear on the campus after the school starts. Prevention and control measures are not in place.
The current overseas epidemic situation is spreading, and the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation is still facing great pressure. However, it is not possible to not resume work or resume school because of sporadic cases in various places. The key lies in the scientific prevention and control after reinstatement and reinstatement. Under the circumstances, sporadic cases are still occurring. This is normal. As long as there are no clustering cases due to omissions, the education departments and schools should not be held responsible. In this way, education departments and schools can do a good job in the prevention and control of epidemic situation and education after the school starts. (Xiong Bingqi author is a well-known education scholar)