Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu, Proposes Tablet PC Support to Bridge Online Education Gap
District Chief Moon Proposes at Seoul District Chiefs Council Meeting on the 30th
Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun District, is proposing "Tablet PC support to bridge the online education gap" at the Seoul District Mayors' Association emergency issue meeting.
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] On the morning of the 30th, Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu, proposed at the emergency agenda meeting of the Seoul Metropolitan Council of District Mayors, "To bridge the online education gap, Seoul's autonomous districts should provide tablet PCs to students eligible for educational welfare."
Mayor Moon said, "Let the council establish a concrete plan and promote it together so that all students can smoothly participate in online remote classes."
Seodaemun-gu has identified about 2,500 eligible students in local elementary, middle, and high schools, and aims to invest a total of approximately 2.65 billion KRW in educational expense subsidies (district funds) for purchasing tablet PCs and establishing wireless internet networks within schools.
Mayor Moon Seok-jin stated, "This proposal was made to actively prepare for the possibility of online schooling due to COVID-19 and to realize education welfare without discrimination in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution," and requested the council to establish countermeasures and for district mayors to actively participate.
He also said, "If device support is provided, even if confirmed cases occur after the school opens and remote classes are conducted again by school, no student will be left out of online classes."
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The Seoul Metropolitan Council of District Mayors (Chairman Kim Young-jong, Mayor of Jongno-gu) resolved at the meeting to ▲ establish uniform standards for emergency living support funds across Seoul's 25 autonomous districts to prevent disparities ▲ promote support for small business owners according to each district's situation ▲ establish uniform standards for educational support expenses across Seoul's 25 autonomous districts to prevent educational discrimination.
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