“Classmates, the sandbags you see are the sandbags piled up by the teachers during the flood season to block the flood of water from flowing to the school…” On August 31, Yongbin, the long-term director of Xiaohe Town No. 1 Middle School, Junxian County , Standing next to the school wall, giving the “first lesson of school” to the ninth grade students, telling the story of the entire school’s faculty and staff as well as the county’s people’s flood prevention and disaster relief.
Xiaohe Township in Junxian County is within the scope of the flood storage and detention area. Facing the surging water, on the morning of July 29, all the faculty and staff of Xiaohe Town No. 1 Middle School came to the school and used flood sandbags to build sandbags between the school buildings and the passages such as the school gates. The wall keeps the water out of the campus.
You Yongbin told reporters that the Xiaohe Township government has also given them great help by directly using trucks to pull flood control materials into the campus and ensure adequate supplies.
With the joint efforts of the local government and school staff, Xiaohe Town No. 1 Middle School was not affected much in this flood situation, and the ninth grade students were guaranteed to return to school as scheduled on August 31. When preparing the content of the “first lesson of school”, the school decided to tell the story of the people’s flood prevention and disaster relief in Junxian County as an important content.
In the worst-hit Xinzhen Township, Xinzhen No. 1 Middle School, the focus of the teachers’ talk was flood prevention and disaster relief.
“When the flood situation was the worst, the water on the campus was 1.6 meters deep.” Guo Haijuan, director of teaching at Xinzhen No. 1 Middle School, told reporters. Restoration. The ninth grade classrooms starting today are on the 4th and 5th floors and can teach normally.”
In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Education and the Special Education Class of the Provincial Headquarters for Epidemic Prevention and Control for the start of school in the fall, Hebi City has determined a plan for the start of schools in batches of staggered peaks. At present, in the severely affected Jun County, 270 schools in the third, third and sixth grades of elementary school have officially opened on August 31. The other grades will be prepared in advance according to the start time node specified in the plan to ensure that schools at all levels and types School starts on schedule.
(Originally published on the 3rd page of Henan Daily on September 1, 2021)
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