The education system has begun to return to activity but the road to a longer routine • Teachers' children, lunches and daycare still unanswered • Community centers complain: "Demand for small groups of children increases operating without the government covering the cost gap we cannot open the frameworks"
The attempt to return to routine and the problems to be solved: The education system yesterday made an important step towards returning to routine. Alongside the relative success and responsiveness of the parents to send the students to the frameworks, several more actions are needed to make the return to routine effective, especially when it comes to returning the economy to activity.
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Activating lunches and a long school day: Students in grades three to three who return to school are only five hours away, and at this stage the lunches that run until four or five are not opened.
This means that parents (who no longer have a child at home) are free to return to work because they have to pick up the child by noon. A decision to open lunches should be shared - for both the Ministry of Education and the local authorities and the local government. The desire is to open them as early as next week. Opening lunches in the outline of up to 15 children in the group means splitting the workforce into smaller groups and requiring the recruitment of more employees - hence more money to run the new set of lunches. If the appropriate budgets are found, the complex issue will shift to the area, then companies that run afternoons, such as the community center and After School, will have to do it on the ground.
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According to Ofer Orenstein, the representative of the directors of the community centers of the community center: "We want to open even more from the government, it's the parents' oxygen. The staffs and children miss and want to return, but the mode of operation requires changing according to the requirements for small groups of children, and the operation is more expensive. Without the government to cover the cost gap, we will not be able to open the deficits, because we must not enter the deficit. "
Operating frames for teacher children: One of the biggest absurdities of learning - many teachers and teachers who are supposed to teach are parents of small children (preschoolers) whose children's frames, too The ones under the Ministry of Education did not open, where the Ministry of Education did not come, the local authorities, some of whom opened baby-sitting frames for children of teaching staff - as was done with health care workers.
For example, the Afula municipality became the first to open babysitters for the children of the municipal education system (5 children in the group). The nurseries are staffed by kindergartens, and they are located in kindergartens near the schools where their parents teach until the municipality's kindergartens return to full activity. Other cities announced that such frameworks will be developed: Rishon LeZion, Tel Aviv-Yafo (will open about 130 babysitters), Ofakim, Sderot and Intelligence, and as time goes on, more cities will join the initiative.
It should be noted that the cycle in small children frameworks has left many teachers with no choice, since both teachers who apply for adulthood and teachers in grades 1-3 have small children. The problem is also likely to be overcome with the return of kindergartens in just half a week - so preschoolers who have small children will find themselves without "arranging" on the days when the children are supposed to stay home.
Running the supervised and subsidized daycare: These are critical frameworks for the return of many parents to work, this issue is still with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Welfare and Finance.
The return of the toddlers to the supervised and subsidized daycare centers of Na'amat, Faitha, Wizzo and the like, divided by groups and days will not require significant changes in frameworks on the one hand - but on the other hand, you will not really release parents and especially many mothers for work for half a week. If you want to allow all parents to go to work, all toddlers need to be put back in the frame - this will require far-reaching changes, including classroom redistribution, the addition of nannies and hence the addition of budgets. For example: Today the ratio is one to every 9 toddlers in the class that has 27 toddlers - that is, 3 toddlers.
In the new situation, where only 15 children in the classroom are allowed to be redistributed, suppose that in each class there will be 13-14 toddlers, this requires 2 nannies for each class and a total of 4 nannies, compared to 3 there are today. This means that more caregivers and more budgets need to be raised, and in some cases the structure needs to be split. Add to this the fact that daycare requires that the state compensate them for the months they did not work, March-April, and did not collect payments from parents.
According to Na'amat chairman Hagit Farr: "We did not wait for the government two weeks ago to submit a detailed outline to the Finance Ministry that will allow the re-opening of the dormitories, subject to the Ministry of Health's instructions. It is hoped that the government will approve the outline immediately, outlining the minimum budgets needed to operate the system under the Ministry of Health's restrictions. "
Operation of kindergartens aged 3-6 in full format: The Ministry of Education's kindergartens are due to open this Sunday (10.5). According to the original layout, the students there will be divided into two (15-17 students) and taught for three days in kindergarten and three at home (distance learning), which means that in this case there is no return of all children together as in grades 1-3. Does not allow parents to go to work fully as they will be forced to stay home for three days with the children, and it also creates a problem for Oh employees Ah who have children in the garden.
The best solution would be finding other buildings (eg schools) and recruiting (student teachers, for example) that can make frameworks in all grade levels - but this is a program remotely exist. Among other things, due to the young age of the children (3 -6), which will be difficult for them to adapt to staff they do not know, but it can be an opportunity for local authorities to prove themselves and open such frameworks.