Social distancing in schools

[Sunderland]

I have seen that schools in Denmark are reopening with 10-12 students in a classroom to maintain social distancing.

So, for anyone who has worked in a private, government or bilingual school in Thailand, how do you think they will manage that in a Thai schools? At the better end are classes where a good number is 20 students in the classroom, but in most primary/elementary classrooms the number is 30-40 students, and in secondary level classrooms anything between 30 and 50 students.

[kingstonkid]

The reason that they are waiting until July to pen schools is that there is no way they can social distance in the Thai schools.  

First they do not have the space

second they do not have the teachers

Third when you were a kid if they told you you could not play outside with your friends what would you have told them?

 

Government and semi private schools are gong to be the test case for how it goes.  most parents i know are very worried about their kids going to school.  Hell 1 kid in class gets a cold then the rest of the class has it by the next day.

 

[Sunderland]

3 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The reason that they are waiting until July to pen schools is that there is no way they can social distance in the Thai schools.  

First they do not have the space

second they do not have the teachers

Third when you were a kid if they told you you could not play outside with your friends what would you have told them?

 

Government and semi private schools are gong to be the test case for how it goes.  most parents i know are very worried about their kids going to school.  Hell 1 kid in class gets a cold then the rest of the class has it by the next day.

 

I agree. I can't see any way in which most schools here can adapt any kind of social distancing, especially in Bangkok where not only the classrooms are tight on space to even walk between desks, but also other areas like corridors, toilets and canteens are jam packed before school, at break times and at the end of the day.

[Nicebus]

Reality check.

How many kids have caught this virus from kid to kid contact ?

Over it.

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, Nicebus said:

Reality check.

How many kids have caught this virus from kid to kid contact ?

Over it.

True, but kids can pass it on to their parents/grandparents.  That said, schools will have to re-open or the consequences are likely to be even worse.  Social-distancing in Thai schools will be near impossible, but hand-sanitising and masks may help a little.

[Nicebus]

29 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

True, but kids can pass it on to their parents/grandparents.  That said, schools will have to re-open or the consequences are likely to be even worse.  Social-distancing in Thai schools will be near impossible, but hand-sanitising and masks may help a little.

Thats true and possible.

But I cant find any recorded cases where little johnny went to school, caught the virus, then came home and killed Grandma.

This pandemic panic has blurred much of the general populations sense of rational proportion.

 

[jimmjam]

if class sizes were smaller it could be done, but a lot of these classes especially government schools have 40+ students in a class, unless the parents pay extra for the e.p classes.

I heard they were planning on doing alternate days, so one day the year 5 and year 6 students go into school , next day 3 and 4 and so on …….

 

[ben2talk]

1 hour ago, Nicebus said:

Thats true and possible.

But I cant find any recorded cases where little johnny went to school, caught the virus, then came home and killed Grandma.

This pandemic panic has blurred much of the general populations sense of rational proportion.

 

Very clever comment.

 

I've seen many cases of people associated with people who have been exposed to someone who was tested positive with Covid who also developed Covid. This is a very contagious disease; more so than flu.

 

I'm also aware that even a normal flu season is dangerous for old people at home when they live with kids who bring flu back from school...