Hee-sook Yoon, Representative of the People’s Strength. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Rep. Yoon Hee-suk criticized the recent review plan for the passport to resume school attendance, saying, “Is children’s safety and education so light?”
Earlier on the 22nd, Lee Nak-yeon, head of the Dong-A-Democratic Party, issued an order to review the resumption of school, referring to the thesis of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) that’the effect of stopping school is not significant’. Then, on the 23rd, Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun gave an order to the Ministry of Education to review the plans for the normal school attendance class for the new semester.
However, on the 25th, Commissioner Chung said, “This thesis was an analysis of the path of infection of the student population after the resumption of school in the days when the outbreak of local communities in May to July last year was not great.” He said the risk could be different.
On the 26th, Rep. Yoon commented on his Facebook page and concluded, “The quarantine officer is the corresponding author (the lead author responsible for the planning and coordination of the research), and it is “the uselessness of school suspension and the transition to school classes”. It was suggested that it seems natural to promote school expansion based on this,” he said. “Considering that it only took a few months to be published in an academic journal, it would have been strange why this opinion was not widely discussed in the quarantine policy process of last fall. Just” he said.
Rep. Yoon said, “(Chief Cheong’s remarks) is the purpose of not expanding the thesis results because it is a situation where the outbreak of the local community has occurred on a large scale, unlike until July of last year observed in the thesis. There was no expression, but to guess, it seems that there was no communication with Chung or disregarding his opinion, and the passport personnel and the Ministry of Education seemed to insist on the expansion of school classes.”
Then, to the passport officials, “Why should the people make speculation on important issues such as child safety?” “Who is the real person in charge of our country’s quarantine policy? I will ask him. In conclusion, he added, “Isn’t it safe to go to school?”
Rep. Yoon said, “If the sleeping dragons made a sudden rush to this conclusion in order to win the favor of the parents, they made it wrong. Just because we were tired of caring for and worrying about the educational gap, parents do not mean to send their children to unsafe schools. It is to make the best judgment after observing whether it is okay to send it, and comprehensively considering other difficulties.”
He emphasized that “the best judgment should be not a statement of political motives, but a result of in-depth and transparent discussions between the quarantine officer and related experts.”
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