School gate security cannot always rely on parents to stand guard

Recently, the No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Xintai City, Shandong Province opened a green channel for students to enter the school. There is a parent on duty every few meters along the nearly 400-meter-long passage. There is not a single motor vehicle driving on the road where the green passage is located, which ensures the safety of more than 5,200 students on their way to school. (Qilu Evening News, January 5)

With the rapid increase in the number of private cars in our country in recent years, some primary and secondary school entrances close to highways are experiencing traffic congestion and disorder, especially every day. When students go to and from school, there are many people and cars, and the safety of students is very worrying. This not only threatens students' safety, disturbs parents' nerves, and affects the school's normal teaching activities, but also has a subtle negative impact on students' compliance with laws and regulations.

The author believes that to change this situation, we must first open up a "tangible" "green channel" at the school gate. First, the traffic police department will deploy additional police personnel during the school entrance period, set up dedicated posts at the school entrance, and increase the intensity of duty in the areas surrounding the school entrance to ensure the orderly passage of people and vehicles. For road sections where there are major safety hazards and parents have strong complaints, zebra crossings should be delineated in a timely manner and speed bumps, safety signs and isolation guardrails should be set up. You can also set up a "student-only channel" to allow only students to pass within a certain period of time. Second, teachers and parents take turns on duty to assist urban management and other relevant departments in strengthening the management of the main road sections at the school gate when going to and from school, and it is prohibited to occupy the road and set up stalls. Third, each class can "dismiss school at staggered times" to avoid excessive crowds and traffic when parents pick up and drop off students. Fourth, parents guide their children to go to and from school on foot or by bus. Parents can also send their children to the school gate and leave. The fifth is to strengthen students' awareness of traffic safety precautions, practice walking on sidewalks and zebra crossings, not crossing the road randomly, and master the basic skills to deal with traffic safety issues at the school gate.

In addition to the "visible" green channel, it is also important to open up the "invisible" "green channel" at the school gate. Relevant departments should strengthen coordination, clarify responsibilities, scientifically manage, and clearly stipulate the responsibilities of schools and other relevant government departments for traffic safety order at school gates at the local or national level, so as to change the current situation where one school is responsible for any problems. It is also necessary to assess the work of other relevant government departments on traffic order and safety at the school gate, so that this work can truly enter a scientific and normalized track.

In short, if you want to completely solve the problem of traffic safety and order at the school gate, you must simultaneously do a good job in the specific planning and management of the traffic channel at the school gate and improve the awareness of leaders of relevant government departments. "Virtual" "Practice" is combined with comprehensive advancement.