{"id":50443,"date":"2022-01-27T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=50443"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:54:59","slug":"sinuiju-people-committee-parents-take-lead-following-party-childcare-education-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/sinuiju-people-committee-parents-take-lead-following-party-childcare-education-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinuiju people&#8217;s committee calls on parents to &#8220;take the lead&#8221; in following the party&#8217;s childcare and education policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent meeting of the people\u2019s committee of Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province, called on parents to better adhere to the party\u2019s childcare and education policies by conducting home-based education in parallel with school-based education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that the people\u2019s committee gathered the city\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (local district) chiefs on the morning of Jan. 17. At the meeting, the committee said that taking the lead in the party\u2019s childcare and education policies \u2014 as stressed once again during the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee \u2014 begins with parents following those policies at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the people\u2019s committee criticized the failure to properly carry out the party\u2019s childcare and educational policies, and called on families to \u201ceducate the growing next generation well\u201d by bringing together school education with home learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the people\u2019s committee took issue with the recent phenomenon of parents failing to properly send their children to school, engaging them in business or errands rather than focusing on their education. It condemned this for causing \u201cgreat damage\u201d to the state\u2019s childcare and educational policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee said that even after the meeting, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (people\u2019s units) should wage a \u201cstruggle\u201d against people sending their children to school only in the morning, using the afternoon and weekends to have them collect wild greens, engage in commerce, or go on errands to buy things.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40870\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af.jpg\" alt=\"Elementary school in North Korea schools reopen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-1068x582.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\u1107\u1173\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1112\u1161\u11a8\u1100\u116d_\u110c\u1169\u1109\u1165\u11ab\u110b\u1174\u110b\u1169\u1102\u1173\u11af-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elementary school in North Korea. \/ Image: DPRK Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people\u2019s committee said parents should stop thinking that classroom learning is enough, emphatically calling on them to teach their children Korean and arithmetic at home from the age of three \u2014 before they are of school age \u2014 to develop their intellectual skills, and to get in line with party ideology to turn the entire populace into a human resource by mastering subjects ahead of time \u201cfor their children\u2019s future, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee also called on parents to use the standard North Korean dialect of Pyongyang rather than regional dialects at home given how \u201cthe family is the cell of society,\u201d and said <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offices and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chiefs should cooperate to help \u201cproblematic families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the meeting recalled that Sinuiju is the proud home of Paeksa Primary School, which produced the \u201clittle poet\u201d Kim Il Sin and was cited as a model of education during the days of late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. He said it called on parents to keep this legacy going by cultivating even more \u201cKim Il Sins\u201d and raising their children \u201cas children of the proud party and children loyal to Kim Jong Un.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the meeting, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> chiefs returned to their districts and called in their local <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> heads at 4 PM to relay the ideas emphasized during the people\u2019s committee meeting. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> heads then called in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> members at 8 PM to discuss the implementation of the party\u2019s childcare and education policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source said most of the locals who took part in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meetings openly complained that they could not leisurely sit with their children and make them study as people starve to death with the border closure and when they must focus simply on putting food on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220126-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent meeting of the people\u2019s committee of Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province, called on parents to better adhere to the party\u2019s childcare and education policies by conducting home-based education in parallel with school-based education. 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