As a result of conducting a survey by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on elementary and middle school teachers and parents on ways to expand school, the majority of respondents expressed the opinion that two-thirds of enrolled students should be allowed to attend school until the current social distancing stage 3 is reached. Appeared.
Currently, in step 2.5, just before step 3 of distance, up to a third of current students can take face-to-face classes at the same time.
However, more than 70% of the 161,203 students, including elementary and pre-junior middle school students and parents of middle school students who participated in the survey by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, need to relax the current school rules more so that two-thirds of the current students can attend school until the third stage of distance. I responded.
Of the 10,729 elementary and junior high school teachers who participated in the survey, more than half were found to agree with the relaxation of the school rules.
Both parents and teachers cited'adaptation to school life' the most as the reason for increasing the number of attendance.
In addition, 71.8% of parents in the middle school 1 and 52.9% of middle school teachers agreed to the question of whether they should attend school every day in the first year of middle school, like in the first and second grades of elementary school.
Regarding this, an official from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said, "Even if the distancing stage is reorganized, it means that two-thirds of the enrolled students should be able to attend school and receive face-to-face classes until they reach the current three-stage'shutdown' level." "We will propose to the Ministry of Education and the quarantine authorities a plan to expand to two-thirds."
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