Seoul Area Schools Shift to Online Education for Two Weeks
The latest growth in coronavirus infections in the Seoul area has now forced schools to go back to online education:
![A teacher at a kindergarten in Suwon, Gyeonggi, Tuesday, prerecords an online class to show her students this week. The Education Ministry ordered all students from kindergarten through 11th grade in the greater Seoul area to remain home and engage in online learning from Wednesday to Sept. 11. [NEWS1]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2020/08/25/e134d27b-fbd6-474b-b379-0a7bde4e1150.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
All students in the greater Seoul area from kindergarten to 11th grade will go back to remote learning for the next two weeks as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the country’s most populous region.
The Education Ministry said Tuesday that 12th graders will be spared from the latest measures as they have to prepare for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), the grueling eight-hour marathon known here as suneung, which students spend their whole school careers preparing for. The test is slated for Dec. 3.
The online learning mandate for students in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi goes into effect Wednesday and tentatively lasts through Sept. 11, the ministry said, though the duration could be extended depending on the surge in cases.
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With online schools, you only need one Kindergarten teacher for all of Korea. Or maybe three, to allow for vacations, illnesses, and so on.
Oh, wait… was that uncaring?
Was it more uncaring than shutting down a country over a disease that leaves 99.9% of those infected essentially unharmed?
The Korean Government has gone full retard over this virus…
The Korean people beat them to it.