Reopening Schools a Risk to Students
The implementation of health protocols outside schools and the rate of community cases also determine whether it is safe to reopen schools.
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Wearing her school uniform, Agda Baline Swarahati, a 4th grade student of Santo Antonius Elementary School from Padua, works on Physical, Sports, and Health (PJOK) subject during the year-end assessment, which is followed from her house in Nusa Loka, BSD City, South Tangerang, Banten, Tuesday (9/6/2020). The Covid-19 pandemic has forced children to follow all instruction from home.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The plan to reopen schools still poses a great risk to student safety. To ensure that schools are truly safe from Covid-19, all implementing conditions for the health protocols must be met and risk mitigation strengthened.
The emergence of transmission clusters at schools in a number of regions trialing limited in-class learning (PTM) shows that the health protocol infrastructure at schools is inadequate in terms of readiness. The implementation of health protocols outside schools and the rate of community cases also determine whether it is safe to reopen schools.