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My children returned to school while we lived in China in 2020.
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The strict policy helped send children to middle school all year round.
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There are many lessons that the United States can learn from our experience.
Returning to school shouldn’t be too painful, so I’m full of worries. The previous “return to school” of my family took place in Beijing in September 2020. Where we lived for two years..
I felt safer than we are in Orlando, Florida. In Beijing, even before the vaccine became available, he spent several months in the city free of COVID-19 infection.
The difference between the two governments is too big to get in here, and while many of China’s policies are unrealistic, if not completely impossible, in the United States, schools are basically operating normally. It’s not just China. New Zealand is also on track, Thanks to high immunization rates and ambitious exclusion plans..
Now that we’re back in America, I think there’s a few things my kids’ school here can learn Chinese school..
Contact tracing, contact tracing, contact tracing
When the school discovered a suspicious incident in a classroom in Beijing, the person remained anonymous, but all parents were notified. It happened only once in the 2020-21 school year, and it wasn’t even our school.
Every day, parents had to enter information into the Health Kit app, such as their child’s temperature, symptoms of illness, and travel outside Beijing. If the health kit was a color other than green, the child could not get on the bus or campus. In other words, I wasn’t in a high-risk place without symptoms.
Certainly sometimes annoying, but my anxiety about the unknown was much lower.
The school had a strict visitor policy
All school holiday concerts were livestreamed or filmed for parents. This was better than worrying about the person sitting next to me, or worse, canceling the festival altogether.Parents can chat and watch concerts together at Zoom Tie closer than if you were sitting together in the auditorium..
The staggered start times for the 2020-21 grades have been set for each grade. If the COVID is done in advance, the caregivers will flock to the communal room and gather the children in the classroom. After COVID, we waited outside the school gates until the classrooms came out one by one. After that, the parents lined up into the school and left the line.
Everyone presented their school ID and health app and had to wear a mask at all times, even outdoors.
Masks were always mandatory on campus, except for physical education and breaks
Our Chinese school teachers and parents had to wear masks indoors. The exception was children aged 2 to 5 years. While touring a kindergarten in Florida in November 2021 in honor of the United States, I was impressed by the number of people who have mask obligations and consistent cleaning procedures for adults.
Elementary school is a different story. Many Florida parents fought for weeks to obtain mask obligations in the school district, despite a state-wide ban on obligations.Florida school that imposes mask obligations Seemed few, so lifted them after Halloween And children between the ages of 5 and 12 were able to get vaccinated.
We are now dealing with that fallout, As the number of infected people increases daily..And don’t forget that those numbers are based on reports by people who were actually there You can find tests and appointments at home, Both are becoming more and more difficult to obtain.
As of December 2021 Only nine states have maskman dates at school..
I was able to easily confirm the number of COVID cases at the school
In China, the government’s Ministry of Education tracks individual COVID-19 cases in schools and holds a press conference when new cases emerge. In the United States, there is little transparency about the number of school cases.
My local school sends a robocall whenever there is a new infection on the number of infections and the last date the student was on campus. “Close contacts” will be contacted individually What exactly constitutes a close relationship It looks arbitrary for each school.
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