Face-to-Face Learning In Jambi City Held January 18

JAMBI - The Jambi City Government implemented face-to-face learning at schools from the levels of Early Childhood Education, Elementary School, and Junior High School (SMP) starting January 18.

"This is done in anticipation of the impact of the odd semester end holiday, where many students join their parents to do holiday activities outside the city of Jambi," Jambi City Government spokesman Abu Bakar said as quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 3.

Meanwhile, on January 4-15, learning for Paud, SD and SMP and equivalent in the area was still carried out using the Distance Learning (PJJ) system or learning from home.

The Jambi City Government has collected data related to the support of the school committee and statements of parents to carry out face-to-face learning. Where more than 90 percent of parents agree face-to-face learning is carried out.

Parents who still do not agree with their children to take face-to-face learning will still be served by the PJJ education unit.

"Learning for students whose parents do not choose face-to-face teaching and learning is served by the education unit through various distance learning models such as Google Classroom, Zoom Meeting, Cisco Webex, and others, without reducing their learning rights," said Abu Bakar.

Face-to-face learning in Jambi City is carried out with rules and regulations to prevent COVID-19 transmission in schools.

For SD and SMP equivalent, each student maintains a minimum distance of 1.5 meters and a maximum of 18 students in one KBM session per class. PAUD is equivalent to maintain a minimum distance of 1.5 meters and a maximum of 5 children in one teaching and learning session per class. The maximum number of learning hours for SD and SMP is 180 minutes.

Furthermore, the KBM session without a break, after the teaching and learning process, the students went straight home. For PAUD a maximum of 90 minutes without rest breaks. After the teaching and learning activities, the children immediately went home, in one day there was only one teaching and learning session, there were no second, third shifts, and so on.

Before and after the teaching and learning activities were finished, the classrooms were immediately disinfected. Mandatory behavior in the educational unit environment is checking body temperature and not exceeding 37.3 degrees Celsius.

Wearing a three-layer cloth or disposable mask, a surgical mask that covers the nose and mouth to the chin.

"Cloth masks are used no later than 4 hours or before 4 hours when they are damp or wet," said Abu Bakar

Furthermore, students wash their hands with soap (CTPS) with running water or hand sanitizer, maintain a minimum distance of 1.5 meters and do not make physical contact such as shaking hands and kissing hands and applying coughing and sneezing ethics.

As for the school canteen, sports hours and extracurricular activities have not been implemented. Because these activities have the potential to transmit COVID-19.