As schools in South Korea sent some 2.37 million more students back to classrooms, 561 kindergartens and schools in cities at high risk of community transmission of COVID-19 postponed reopening. AsiaNewsNetwork
But there are lingering concerns about sending children back to classrooms, especially in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, home to roughly half of the country’s population, as the metropolitan area is seeing a spike in new cases.
Despite the concerns, education authorities are adamant that the phased reopening of schools will go ahead as planned. “But if we cannot send our students back to school under the country’s current COVID-19 management system, schools in Korea will never be able to open again this year and classes can only be held online,” she said. “Only through remote learning, we cannot provide students with sufficient education that is only possible through face-to-face interaction with teachers at schools.”
In the second phase of reopening, in-person classes resumed on Wednesday for students in kindergarten, the second year of high school, the third year of middle school and the first two years of elementary school.So far, in-person classes have already resumed for about 47 percent of the country’s students, an estimated 2.8 million, attending kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools.
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