Schools handed six guidelines ahead of possible July reopening

[snoop1130]

Schools handed six guidelines ahead of possible July reopening

By THE NATION

 

 

The Public Health Ministry has issued six guidelines to schools nationwide on how to guard against the spread of Covid-19 among students and staff once they reopen.

 

The government is considering allowing schools in infection-free areas to open in July.

 

“The first point that must be emphasised is preventing the spread of Covid-19 and other germs by setting up screening checkpoints at all entrances to check for fever and other symptoms,” said Department of Health director-general Dr Panpimol Wipulakorn on Friday (May 29). “Furthermore, schools must stick to strict rules on wearing face masks and washing hands frequently, as well as providing adequate alcohol gel or hand-washing stations.”

 

Panpimol said that each class should have no more than 20-25 students in order to maintain a distance of at least 1 metre between students. “This will pose a challenge for schools as normally each classroom has around 40 students,” she added. “Schools may employ an alternate study schedule where half of the students study online at home while the other half attend the school, and then switch at a suitable interval.”

 

“The second point is to prepare lessons and learning materials that are suitable for both classroom and online learning, to ensure that no student’s education is hindered during the Covid-19 situation,” said Panpimol.

 

“The third point is to give underprivileged and disabled children the same learning opportunities as other students by providing suitable protection equipment or specialised tools to facilitate their education both at home and in school.”

 

The fourth point is to protect the safety and welfare of children from families who have become ill with or are under investigation for Covid-19. Measures must be taken to ensure that affected students are not excluded from their peer group.

 

The fifth point is to provide infrastructure in schools to prevent the spread of the virus, including additional hand-washing sinks, partitions in cafeterias, and rearrangement of classrooms, hallways and communal areas to maintain social distancing.

 

“The sixth point that school should focus on is administration of their budgets, as these measures will increase the financial burden on the school and possibly on parents,” said Panpimol.

 

“Schools must make sure they are financially sound before reopening so they can ensure uninterrupted operations until the end of the semester.”

 

Panpimol urged schools to perform a self-evaluation online at https://stopcovid.anamai.moph.go.th/, where they can check whether or not they are ready to open during the ongoing Covid-19 situation.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30388740

 

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[Bender Rodriguez]

school age children has as good at ZERO percent death rate because working immune system

 

but now everybody has to be SCARED & panic to see, touch, speak to each other

 

crazy 1984 world

[Susco]

10 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

school age children has as good at ZERO percent death rate because working immune system

 

but now everybody has to be SCARED & panic to see, touch, speak to each other

 

crazy 1984 world

 

Ever considered that after a school day those kids go home, where not everyone is of school age?

[kingstonkid]

How do you take these schools they way they are built and put spacing in between students.  Not gong to work.

 

I fore see that some schools will go under too bad.   

The government fails to realize that a lot of the schools are also the baby sitters for the kids while mom and dad are working.  There is no way they can take Matayom studetns and say stay home and learn on line.  Do they really think that kids will do that or will they be out onthe streets knowing that even if they do nothing they will still pass.

 

 

[CorpusChristie]

25 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

school age children has as good at ZERO percent death rate because working immune system

 

but now everybody has to be SCARED & panic to see, touch, speak to each other

 

crazy 1984 world

The concern is that children would become spreaders of the virus 

[brain150]

It is amazing how the same agenda is rolled out world wide

with the same nonsense excuse !!!

They are traumatising the children - the harm that is done is unbelievable !

 

With the known data about the virus this is just insanity !

The virus is not more dangerous than a common flu - and that's SCIENCE as of now !!!

 

I hope these criminals who do that much harm to children will go to jail !

Just like all the others driving this agenda [Politicians, Journalists, Scientists and all the other idiots supporting this nonsense]

The numbers speak for itself ... the REAL numbers - not the ones in the media

[Ventenio]

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

school age children has as good at ZERO percent death rate because working immune system

NOT every kid has a 100% working immune system, right?  They have all been tested and can I see the results????

 

parents worry about their kids, of course.  

 

over 500,000 people have died, likely many more,  AND AND AND:::::

 

The kids can be carriers and then their PARENTS die...

 

80%ish don't show symptoms.  

 

It's 100% understandable to be worried.  The question will be, "How dramatic are the measures to protect lives?"  

 

If one mask is lowered, will the entire school go on lock down.  one cough, lock down the city?  never leave your desk.  don't touch anything.  no phones, except to take pictures of farang teachers not wearing mask while eating and if farangs look tired quarantine...   That's the question....

[cyril sneer]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Panpimol said that each class should have no more than 20-25 students

never gonna happen

 

some schools still squeezing 50 into a class

[holy cow cm]

Very difficult. If they can open schools, then they can open the go go bars as well. We all know there cannot be complete safety and social distancing. This even applies to markets, supermarkets and transportation. Cleaning every 5 seconds and guaranteeing a sneeze will not blow out from the mask because of the pressure from the sneeze air velocity is impossible. Even the schools limiting to 20 kids per room is impossible. If they want kids at school how about rotate them by 1/4 groups. 10 per day and the rest will sit on line at home. Fridays is only on line for all the kids, so each group gets 1 day per week in class. Homework would be everyday. We all already know the learning system in the schools in not very good anyway. Who knows, but I really want my daughter to be able to go to school for her last year in Mathayom. At least enjoy some of it. 

 

 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Panpimol said that each class should have no more than 20-25 students in order to maintain a distance of at least 1 metre between students. “This will pose a challenge for schools as normally each classroom has around 40 students,” she added. “Schools may employ an alternate study schedule where half of the students study online at home while the other half attend the school, and then switch at a suitable interval.”

In a word... Mayhem !

[Saltire]

So is when the schools reconvene a national or provincial decision?

 

I ask as the wife is convinced Monday will see the return of students in the village high school on June 1, according to the poo yai's tannoy anouncements. (I would note her English and in particular, dates is not good).

 

Two days ago we did see many uniformed schoolkids on a trip to the city?

 

I guess we willl see on Monday morning as many have to pass our house on the way to school.

[sammieuk1]

The sixth point that school should focus on is administration of their budgets, as these measures will increase the financial burden on the school and possibly on parents,” said Panpimol.

 

I would say the possibly on parents bit is a forgone conclusion ???? 

[skorp13]

4 hours ago, Susco said:

 

Ever considered that after a school day those kids go home, where not everyone is of school age?

So let them go to 7/11, take them shopping, go have a meal somewhere with then just don't send them to school

[Bluetongue]

She looks like a barrel of laughs. There is no way that any of these children in my village are going to do online learning. They have no computer, no suitable area, parents have no money, no internet access it costs money, no discipline, no one will supervise, it will not and does not happen. And I imagine the same goes for large swathes of the country. What planet are they on?

 

It looks to be like another example of paying a large amount of lip service to a notion, ie opening the schools safely with distancing and measures etc and then just opening them pretty much in the old way. And therein lies the rub as there seems to be little infection if any in the sticks, they will get away with it.

[Dumbastheycome]

4 hours ago, brain150 said:

It is amazing how the same agenda is rolled out world wide

with the same nonsense excuse !!!

They are traumatising the children - the harm that is done is unbelievable !

 

With the known data about the virus this is just insanity !

The virus is not more dangerous than a common flu - and that's SCIENCE as of now !!!

 

I hope these criminals who do that much harm to children will go to jail !

Just like all the others driving this agenda [Politicians, Journalists, Scientists and all the other idiots supporting this nonsense]

The numbers speak for itself ... the REAL numbers - not the ones in the media

Please direct me to a genuine verifiable source of the "real" numbers.

[DJ54]

Children here in the village all run around playing ... eating together..

[Lingba]

and just wait till somebody coughs to clear their throat or sneezes from dust...it will be total bedlam

[samsensam]

19 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

school age children has as good at ZERO percent death rate because working immune system

 

but now everybody has to be SCARED & panic to see, touch, speak to each other

 

crazy 1984 world

 

that may be true unfortunately while children may not develop symptoms they can carry the virus and infect others. thus, for example, a child may become infected, go to school and infect teachers and other adults at the school who do develop symptoms. the child may also pass the virus onto other children who then go home and infect their parents who then develop symptoms.

 

therefore having appropriate social distancing and other precautions in place in thai schools, as in schools around the world, is very important.

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

It's a machine they've got to get rolling again, which has very little to do with education. The vast number of government employees involved all have to be paid again, many of whom have kickbacks to make.  The budgets for facilities, materials, etc., as well as salaries, are being skimmed by many hands all the way up to each school director, and then by officials at the municipal or provincial education offices. All of this can't take place if nobody's working, or least, doing something that looks like work, which is their business as usual.

 

While I've seen some good exceptions, a few teachers here and there who make the effort and care about their students, and actually go to class, my experience in the Thai educational system has shown me the vast majority spend most of their time sitting in the office, doing makeup, making somtam, playing on Facebook, and talking trash about those silly farangs who take the job too seriously. Much of the Thai idea of teaching I've seen is occasionally dropping off worksheets or packets, telling a few teacher's pets go to write assignments on the board, the same students who at the end of each semester carry stacks of these worksheets or notebooks back into the office, for the teacher to stamp each page regardless of what's on it.

 

It's an office job, an in and out box, like a corporation although there's no accountability. We've recently seen in the news, that despite dishing out beatings and throwing M2 gang rape parties on campus, little ends up happening to them. All that matters each year is that the students are passed, and as has been said here, for better or worse, they're being babysat.

Edited May 31, 2020 by CrunchWrapSupreme