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Hello First Grade'?

We asked parents and children what worries them most in the new year

The corona has disrupted our lives and the lives of our children, but it can also disrupt their future.

We asked five parents and their children who are going up to first grade to share with us the concerns, the uncertainty and their opinion about what is going to happen.

One thing is for sure - everyone is already exhausted

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Sunday, 22 August 2021, 07:10 Updated: 07:23

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Every parent who has experienced the past year of the Corona through computer screens and zoom takes care.

It does not really matter if your child is strong in school, if he is good at reading or arithmetic, most students have been badly hurt academically in the past year, and the learning gaps, but no less social, have only intensified.

Those who are perhaps at the most frightening intersection are the parents of children entering first grade.

The transition between the enveloping kindergarten (and the one that does not require wearing masks) and entering the education system, literacy, encounters with new children and teachers, is an exciting transition, but also one that can be upsetting and threatening for many of the new students.

In light of the fact that only a few days separate us from the beginning of the school year - if it happens at all - and the outline she will work on is still unclear, we asked five parents and their first-graders to tell us about the excitement alongside the new year, and how they deal with the uncertainty:

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Liron and Libby Hackman

"The doubt about returning to school is very, very stressful for me" (Photo: Courtesy of the family, Liron Hackman)

What is more - fears or excitement?

"I'm personally insanely excited, whether it starts this year or not, zooming in or out physically at school. The very fact that my girl is going to school is very exciting! Almost every WhatsApp thing about it, measuring school shirts, going near school makes me shed tear".

"As far as my heart is concerned, she's really in the clouds, we've talked about it so much, she's really waiting and looking forward to it, almost every day she takes the new pencil case out of the new bag and writes letters to her about the new notebooks. A'".

What is your biggest concern?

"Libby's biggest concern is Corona's policy, that she will not get to school and will have to study in Zoom, she will be really disappointed. Other than that, she is afraid that it is not a kindergarten and that there will not be enough time to play."

For me the concerns are all the questions that bother me that maybe she will not fit in, maybe she is still small for this whole story? And what about the whole social thing? Children can be cruel. She's coming up without her best friend, maybe you can not find a good friend like him? Do not feel alone. And what about the educator, you may not know how to recognize all the good in her? Maybe she's judging her because she's not reading yet? Just be patient with her. "

How do you deal with the doubt about returning to school?

" The doubt about returning to school is very, very stressful for me. I see a school far beyond where you study, a school for me is the acquisition of friends, social skills, security, independence and yes, also a place where you learn to write and read. But that's absolutely not the important part to me. Besides, I don't see my heart sitting in front of a screen for so long, or I teach her everything the teacher is supposed to teach, I don't have the skills or the time for that. "

What do you as parents think about the conduct of the education system?

"I think the education system should completely adapt to 21st century children when it comes to technology, progress and everything that speaks to children today (which is completely different from what it spoke to us at their age) but at the same time there is a lot of old school that my children want to experience. And as for the outline - I do not know it yet, like all the parents, so I have nothing to say about it. "

Little and Yuval Dvir, Rishon Lezion

"The biggest fears are that there will be social gaps" (Photo: courtesy of those photographed)

Little is a mother of three children, the eldest of whom experienced the first year of her first grade promotion. Yuval, her little brother who celebrates a birthday the day before September 1, is very excited about school and meeting new and old friends.

What is more - fears or excitement?

"Yuval is the second and eldest child to move to B. after a very difficult year. So excitement is not the truth, but there are great fears," says Little. "I do not see how we and the children get through it. The children did not learn this year and I expect it to be the same next year. It is a constant war to get into the zoom they will learn - they have bad experiences, and we parents are exhausted. "A nightmare. You're nervous and you have no strength. No one comes out relaxed."

What is your biggest concern?

"The biggest fears are that there will be social gaps, we fill the educational gaps at home. The freedom, for example, instead of spending time with friends, they stay at home and do not spend time with friends - which is a critical thing at this age. That is our greatest fear. "

How do you deal with the supplier regarding the return of schools?

"As long as there is no real certainty, I will not burden the children with the information. Once there is something, we will talk to them. Yuval does understand that something is happening, I hinted to him that the school year will not open and we also canceled the planned birthday party. That he is going to sit in front of a computer for a few hours a day. "

What do you as parents think about the conduct of the education system?

"I'm not angry, because I understand that there is uncertainty and we need to see how things develop. Who can promise that there will be no closure or what will happen here in another month or two? Do not know. So it seems to me that it is irresponsible to act decisively now. That is possible. "

Itai and Raz Friedland, Ness Ziona

Finished 20 days of isolation just a few days ago (Photo: courtesy of the photographers)

Itai, his wife Sivan, their eldest daughter Rumi (immigrant to B), their daughter Raz, who is in the first grade, and her little Daria, who is in the municipal kindergarten, recently completed an isolation of no less than 20 days, following subsequent adhesions of the entire family in Corona.

What is more - fears or excitement?

"Raz is excited and not afraid, for us there are no more worries because we are all recovering from a corona with a green mark. There are no more isolations and no more corona tests need to be done, so that's a big advantage. But anyway we regularly try to be optimistic and positive , At the end everyone knows how to write and read, and I convey optimism "

What is your biggest concern?

"Obviously there are concerns that the kids are learning to zoom, and a quarter of an hour in front of the zoom is not learning (last year the girl had two twenty-minute net lessons and it was overlapping). It's harder when the parents have to work in parallel and have no time. We did as much as possible with Rumi in first grade, it may be abrasive, but as long as we have time we will sit with her. "

How do you deal with the supplier regarding the return of schools

?

"I think they make too much noise because you start studying anyway and then go on holidays - four days before Rosh Hashanah. What could it mean? For me, if it helps in terms of illness, you can postpone going back to school. I might do an introductory day with the teacher and release them. "It's not critical, and if it requires such efforts just to show that everything is fine it's unnecessary."

What do you as parents think about the conduct of the education system

?

"I very much hope they have learned lessons, but we will only know this in practice when the year opens. At the moment it seems a bit they do not know yet what they want."

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