Tokyo – While COVID-19 has sown uncertainty and chaos in American education and allowed many young people to be informed from a distance, Japanese schools are back in session, thanks to a much lower rate of spread of community-based coronavirus.the new instances of COVID-19 peaked in 1605 in early August, infections have been reduced to less than the part of recent weeks.
Japan’s population is approximately 38% of that of the United States, however, it accounts for 1% of the number of cases shown of coronavirus.
The government’s antiviral crusade has been heavily criticized for being reactive and temporary, yet the debate has been more commonly free from the party spirit that has persisted in anti-virus efforts in the United States.
Masks, for example, are as debatable as dressing up in hats.Perhaps because the Japanese play with live jowling in big cities, dressing in masks is a centuries-old defense in flu season and bloodless, as well as in the spring, when allergies occur.
CBS News made a stopover in the northeast corner of Tokyo this week to stop at 247 students at East Kanamachi Elementary School.The youth began climbing the door at 8 a.m. with their heavy e-book bags.assigned boxes in the school hallway, swapning city shoes for soft-soled shoes worn in class.
Like the generations before them, Yuka Katayama’s first-year elegance bent over to start the day’s studies, but now there’s nothing typical about at school: each child wore a brightly colored mask and sat on a private vinyl shield, newly purchased through the school PTA for about $10 each.
Ms. Katayama, dressed in a face shield with her padded maxi skirt and tennis shoes, obviously more multitasking than usual.Instead of asking the youth to pass the papers in the ranks, she gave all the children language exercises herself, to minimize contact with each other.He opened the windows long enough for the air to circulate, without risking knocking down a child.
When it came time to move on to the large sink to put his hands in the hallway, he kept an eagle eye on each of the students, patiently reminding them again and again of the colorful markers on the ground designed to prevent them from breathing in more sensible of others.
“First-year students like to be closer to each other, so social estating is a challenge,” he said.”It’s hard to teach everyone normal elegance while keeping everyone safe.”
On the plus side: “They’re freshmans, so they think it’s normal!”
Things got more complicated at noon.In Japanese schools, lunchtime is a component of the learning experience.The children take turns dressing up in white chef costumes and serving stew and rice to their classmates.East Kanamachi Elementary School accelerated completely for lunch, even winning awards for its use of local produce and artistic recipes.
But Ms. Katayama struggled to integrate young people with protocols against coronavirus.Preventing young people of this age from talking to others and regrouping is a major challenge.
In Japan, reading, writing and math have been higher through “3C” – training young people to avoid close conversations, crowds and enclosed spaces.Stickers are a constant reminder of social distance.
“Stay away physically, close, spiritually,” they read.
However, typical study rooms in Japan do not appear to pass the 3C test.In Ms. Katayama’s class, the desks were simply spaced for walking.Regulations consistent with up to 40 class-consistent youth.
Last month, a panel of education researchers in Tokyo filed a petition to inspire immediate adoption of smaller classes.Class sizes “should be reduced to 30 now, and quickly, to 20,” the panel said.
Japan’s Riken Research Institute, in collaboration with Kobe University, argues that even giant categories can be safely maintained: there is sufficient ventilation.
A recent simulation in “Fugaku” – japan’s new supercomputer (the fastest in the world) – of 40 academics on their desks in a typically length air-conditioned room concluded that breaking a single window and door in the opposite diagonal aspect provided enough air to prevent its viral spread.
Outside, in the playground, an EP elegance was underway, revealing that another thin line of teachers was looking to sail.Children had never needed so much exercise; in east Kanamachi, teachers say young people have less physical strength and are more easily injured, and some have gained weight during the COVID-19 restriction period.
In schools and the best schools, teachers report excess sprains and muscle pulls when young people leave shelters in house and school locks to go for a run and jump again.
A survey conducted through the Japanese Association of Clinical Orthopaedics of 817 number one high school students found that 35.3% of students at school number one reported no resistance and 36.9% said it had become heavier.The panel warned that a month would take 3 months to recover, and suggested that schools bring a slow technique to gym classes.
But with the mandates of social estating still in order, I had to be artistic in the playground.
Students have been allowed to dispense with the mask, which is on this hot and humid day to reduce the threat of heat-related illnesses.
“The ball games and close contacts are over. We tried to keep them all in the same direction and screaming,” the school’s fitness instructor said.
Director Mari Kawamura admitted that expecting complete compliance from six-year-olds futile.
“Instead of banning all verbal exchange and keeping young people in a constant state of concern and vigilance, it’s better to put fundamental safeguards in position,” he said.Anxious teachers and parents expect the strategy to work.