Even though most students are still improving their noggins online, some countries have already relaxed quarantine regulations and are getting kids back in classrooms, step by step. Though every country has its own way of doing things. Denmark is already allowing children up to the age of 11 to return to schools and nurseries, the BBC reports.
Meanwhile, Germany is also allowing students back into schools, though they have to sit at separate desks to ensure that everyone’s social-distancing properly. Students in Berlin went back to class a couple of weeks ago to take their final exams, too.
In Norway, high schools and universities are partially reopening while kindergartens have now fully reopened. France, meanwhile, has declared that primary school students will go back to class from May 11, but classes will have a maximum of 15 students. The Netherlands plans to do the same, though classes will be part-time; secondary students will have to wait until June 1 before they can go back to the schools they’ve (probably) missed so much.
But not everyone’s rushing to leave their homes. Even though South Korean schools reopened in April, they’re still almost entirely empty because it was decided that kids would be learning online. The only people in the classrooms are teachers who communicate with their students via the internet.
