Many schools consulted on vaccination for children 5-11 years old

Regarding vaccination for children, up to this point, parents still have a lot of questions many different opinions.

Linh Dam Practical Kindergarten, Hoang Mai District (Hanoi) collects parents’ opinions on vaccination for children and ends before March 24. As a result, in the group of 5-year-old children, there were 18 parents who answered “no vaccination” to the question of whether parents expected to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 and only 3 parents agreed.

Or as a result of a survey about vaccination in a 3rd grade class of Kim Lien Primary School, Dong Da district, there were 46 students in the class, of which 26 parents agreed to have their children vaccinated (56 ,5%); 14 people disagreed (about 30%) and 6 people did not.

Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, who has 2 children in primary school and kindergarten in Hai Ba Trung district, said she did not agree to have her children vaccinated against COVID-19 because both of them were infected. Not being able to go to school, the two children were almost “locked” at home for almost a whole year, but in the end, they contracted the disease from their parents. In the apartment building where Ms. Hang lives, 15 households have all been infected, including children. However, I only had a mild fever for 2 days and it was fine. “Now, my family has let me travel and go out to make up for the cramped days. I feel very regretful about the time when the school closed for almost a year, learning online,” said Ms. Hang.

In contrast, Mr. Trinh Xuan Phu has a child in 9th grade, Kim Giang Secondary School (Thanh Xuan district) and Dai Kim Primary School (Hoang Mai district) shared, the family chose to agree. Get vaccinated so that if you have COVID-19 you will also have milder symptoms. The family has 4 people, currently the mother and sister in 9th grade have contracted COVID-19, while the brother and youngest child are well isolated, so they have not been infected. This time, the school announced vaccination, I will give you all the shots.

According to a report on the review results of vaccination preparation for children aged 5-11 years old by the Department of Education and Training of Long Bien district from the end of February 2022, of which 46.6% of parents agreed to be vaccinated at preschool level; 48.1% of parents disagree.

For primary school students, schools surveyed 100% of parents’ opinions of students from grades 1 to 5, the results of the percentage of parents agreeing to give their children injections ranged from 59-74% depending on the grade. .

Like preschoolers, some parents do not agree to vaccinate their children due to fear of reactions; worry about side effects; the child has a background disease, allergy or the child has COVID-19 so he still has antibodies and does not want to be vaccinated.

Many departments of education and training in Hanoi said that the rate of pre-school children and primary school students infected with COVID-19 is quite high, in some places it accounts for 30-40% of the children.

Impatient because schools are still closed

On forums, parents in Hanoi expressed their impatience, looking forward to the day the school opened. Some people even wonder, the reason that up to this point, near the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the capital has not yet sent children to school. “All activities have returned to normal. Children can go out to eat, go out and travel, but going to school is not a very strange and difficult thing to understand. Not to mention, children at home but still have COVID-19 as usual,” said Mr. Vu Van Viet, in Hai Ba Trung district.

Principals of some kindergartens and primary schools also said that they are very impatient and worried about the quality of education because children have not been able to go to school for nearly a whole year. She tries to connect online teaching, but how effective it is is difficult to measure because the test and assessment is also reduced in difficulty, cannot control cheating. For preschool, the closure of schools means that teachers have reduced or lost their income. At the primary level, children at home study online inefficiently, interrupting interactions with friends and teachers, causing them to have strong psychological impacts. Experts warn that children who stay at home for a long time show signs of irritability, fatigue, spending a lot of time on social networks, addiction to video games, etc.

However, up to this point, the leaders of Hanoi Department of Education and Training still have no information on when to send preschool and primary school children back to school. Some educational administrators at the grassroots level said that, although they were looking forward to and always ready to open schools, they could not come up with suggestions. Because of this, it depends on the assessment of the epidemic situation of the City People’s Committee and the proposal of the Department of Education and Training.