Typhoon Hinnamno suspended school in Jeju and southern regions… On the 6th, Seoul Elementary and Elementary School Comprehensive

Closed or distance learning… Gyeonggi, Incheon, Chungcheong, Gangwon, etc. are left to school autonomy
National education office ’emergency work’ system… All Jeju and Gyeongju school trips canceled or postponed

Ahead of the landing of Typhoon Hinnamno, the 11th typhoon, which is coming up toward the Korean Peninsula with a very strong all-time power, many schools in Jeju and southern regions as well as in Seoul have suspended their students from attending school and have closed or taken remote classes. has decided

This is due to the fact that Hinnamno’s strong wind radius exceeded 400km and virtually the entire country had entered the sphere of influence.

◇ Jeju School today ‘stop school’… Most of tomorrow will be closed and distance learning
On the 5th, Jeju Island was the first to enter the sphere directly affected by the typhoon.

As Hinnamno gradually approached, all 310 schools, including kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools and special schools in Jeju Island, did not attend classes that day.

282 places (91%), including 108 kindergartens, 101 elementary schools, 41 middle schools, 29 high schools, and 3 special schools, took distance classes, and the rest, including 10 kindergartens, 13 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, and 1 high school. 28 (9%) were closed.

On the 6th, 248 schools (80%) decided to close distance classes, 22 places (7.1%) decided to close, and the remaining 40 places (12.9%) are also considering distance learning or closure.

As Hinnamno is expected to land on the southern coast of Gyeongnam on the morning of the 6th, it seems inevitable that classes in the southern regions such as Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam will also be disrupted on the same day.

On the 6th, all 1,04 schools in Busan will start remote classes, and all schools in Daegu will also be closed or closed.

A decision was made to close Ulsan as well.

However, high schools were forced to choose between school closures and distance learning by the principal.

In Gyeongnam Province, all schools have distance learning and kindergartens are closed.

Kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools in Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam, located in the Jirisan area, started remote classes from today as heavy rain is expected.

Schools in Gwangju Metropolitan City initially decided to go to school on both the 5th and 6th, but changed the policy and on the 6th, 411 schools (85.8%) out of a total of 479 schools took remote classes and 68 schools (14.2%) shortened classes.

In the case of Seoul, kindergartens and elementary schools within the district will be temporarily closed on the 6th.

Middle schools allowed students to choose between closing and distance learning, while high schools decided whether to return to school at the discretion of the principal.

An official from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said, “As there are concerns regarding safety due to the maximum instantaneous wind speed of 40-60 m/s in Hinnamno and strong rain of 600 mm or more, we have decided to temporarily close the business.” We also considered the fact that in the face of COVID-19, we continued to attend classes and never received remote classes,” he explained.

◇ Review of remote classes in the ’emergency work system’ in central regions such as the metropolitan area
Education authorities in other regions, which are expected to be somewhat less affected by typhoons compared to Jeju and southern regions, also paid attention to weather warnings and entered an emergency working system.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education has instructed front-line schools to operate a situation management team, strengthen safety management of commuting to and from school when a weather warning is issued, and to actively review the adjustment of commute times, closures, and refraining from outdoor classes according to the judgment of the principal.

In particular, 86 facilities in the school that were damaged by the torrential rain that fell in the central region at the beginning of last month were to be intensively inspected.

However, no measures have yet been taken to suspend school attendance.

An official from the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said, “In the case of Seoul, schools are geographically dense, but Gyeonggi-do is widely distributed and the effect of weather warnings varies by city and county, so it is difficult to set closures or remote classes at once.” We were instructed to decide whether to suspend school attendance or not, and we are investigating the current situation.”

Schools in Incheon, Daejeon, Jeollabuk-do, Chungbuk, Chungnam, Sejong, and Gangwon also received official notices urging the principal to adjust the arrival and departure times at the discretion of the principal and to take measures related to school management, such as suspension and closure of schools.

Although most of the classes were conducted normally on that day at these local schools, there is a possibility that the school operation guidelines will be changed depending on the course of the typhoon and the degree of damage in the future.

An official from a local education office said, “We plan to decide the school operation policy while closely monitoring the course and impact of the typhoon.”

◇ Jeju-Gyeongju school trip and experiential learning ‘All-Stop’
All school trips to Jeju and southern regions have been canceled or postponed.

In North Chungcheong Province, a total of eight schools, including six on Jeju Island and two on Gyeongju-ro, had planned and canceled school trips.

Seven other schools tried to conduct experiential learning in these areas, but also canceled or postponed them.

From this day, three high schools in Daegu, which planned a school trip to Jeju Island for three nights and four days, five high schools in Ulsan, two elementary schools and four high schools in Gwangju, and one high school in Incheon, all scheduled during the typhoon period. I canceled my travel plans.

Six schools in Gangwon, which planned experiential learning or field trips to Jeju Island and the southern region during a similar period, postponed their schedules instead of canceling them.

A school in the Gyeonggi region also decided to postpone the Jeju Island school trip planned from today until the end of this month.

(Reporters Choi Jong-ho, Kim Jun-ho, Kim Dong-min, Byeon Woo-yeol, Choi Young-soo, Kim Sang-yeon, Han Mu-seon, Kim Yong-tae, Jeon Seung-hyun, Yang Ji-woong, Jeon Ji-hye, and Lee Do-yeon)

/yunhap news