Regent Invites Demak Flood Affected Schools To Learn To Teach Online

The condition of SD Negeri 01 Wonorejo Daryono, Karanganyar District, Demak Regency, was affected by the flood, so the students were closed on Thursday (14/3/2024). (ANTARA)

Regent Demak Eisti'anah invited schools affected by flooding in Demak to hold online learning.

"The school may not have been flooded, but the access road to the school turned out to be flooded so students could not enter the school," he said when opening the Ramadan Islamic Boarding School at SMP Negeri 2 Karanganyar Demak, Thursday, March 14, was confiscated by Antara.

Therefore, he said, schools, if they cannot do face-to-face learning, can be done online.

Based on weather forecasts from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the rain will last until the end of March 2024. Meanwhile, information about inundation occurs ranging from Mranggen, Karangtengah, Kebonagung, to Delpet.

Head of the Demak Regency Education and Culture Office, Haris Wahyudi Ridwan, added that his party had reported to the regent that several schools were affected by the flood.

"When conditions do not allow holding a face-to-face teaching and learning process, it can be done online," he said.

Based on the report, he said, there were schools whose courtyards were flooded, so it was not possible to hold face-to-face learning. Among them, schools in Kalisari and SMP Delpet.

If the students are also affected by flooding or in an emergency because they have to evacuate, so it is not possible to hold a face-to-face teaching and learning process or online, then students can study with their parents.

The head of SMP Negeri 2 Karanganyar Maskun admitted that his party is ready to hold online or hybrid learning, namely face-to-face and online for students who cannot go to school.

Because, he said, the access road to schools was flooded, thus allowing students not to go to school.

The same thing was also expressed by the Head of SD Negeri 01 Wonorejo Daryono who admitted that today, March 14, his students had to be closed, because his school yard was also flooded.

"Of course it is not possible to hold a teaching and learning process," he said.

Even if the flood inundation has not subsided in the near future, then his party will also hold online learning.