Hurricane Hurricane 2010 reversed - and no one knows what it will look like • In winter, classrooms could become corona hatchery • Parents fear: "Not sure we will send our children" • Minister Gallant enters senior office to look into next year's preparations

Difficult hours: Less than two months to open the school year and no one knows what the next school year will look like. 

On the one hand, winter will not allow for open-field learning, while closed classes may become corona incubators. The problem: There are not enough structures and manpower to split The students into different groups. 

In light of the continued rise in morbidity, Education Minister Yoav Galant is expected to convene a hearing on Wednesday morning with the senior management forum at the Ministry of Education, which will examine the Ministry's preparations for the start of the school year in the shadow of the Corona. This is when the education system's time clock is running out, and in light of the education system's conduct in recent months, the upcoming school year, 5783, will also be full of last-minute improvisations. With the increase in morbidity and when winter arrives three months after the school year opens, September will see the system Education will have to do things differently, which means huge, first and foremost, and second, logistically, because every little change - has to be translated into thousands of educational institutions. 

"The Ministry of Education has no idea how it will open this year and whether it will open the year," says a senior local authority official. "Nobody knows how the disease will develop, not in a month and certainly not in two months. I really hope that the school year plans will come in time and not As happened at noon and in the school of great freedom. " 

Corona tests at Hadassah Hospital for high school students in Jerusalem // Photo: Hadassah spokesmen

He adds, "The fact that there is currently no CEO in the education ministry will make it difficult to handle thoroughly and organized preparations for the start of the next school year." He says, "Parents are scared to send the children to frames, and it could very well continue in September."

Shirley Rimon-Bracha, Director of Education at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, says: "Either the school year will open as usual, which seems unlikely, or we will open capsules and rotation and partial learning, with emphasis on the lower ages. The third option is that the school year opens only after the holidays. ".

"There is time to plan"

Pomegranate emphasizes that "two out of the three scenarios affect parents, students, kindergartens and schools, and everyone needs to take that into account. The first wave, it was a surprise and impossible to plan in advance. But now there is, relatively speaking, time to plan." 

If we put the learning issue aside, the biggest problem is how to open schools. As part of the preparation for the next school year, the Ministry of Education distributed a letter to school administrators and principals asking them to prepare accordingly.

Schools are required to prepare for three possible scenarios, the first being a complete closure that involves the closure of all schools or a single school - then learning from home will take place. The second scenario is integrated where schools integrate distance learning and school learning. The third scenario is the "Corona routine" - meaning schools will remain open but operate under health restrictions.

Revital Abu Dhaga is the mother of three children aged 6, 9.5 and 11.5 from Alfie Menashe. Her children have not returned to the education system since schools closed on Purim, except for a few days during the last school week to say goodbye to their friends and teachers: "In the current situation, I do not believe that I will send the children to school on September 1," she says. "I know the system is preparing for three scenarios, but I don't know how to translate it on the ground. I don't know if they have that ability because there is a big problem with buildings. I think the state should budget it." 

Photo: Ami Shamir

Abu Degah notes that "the increase in the number of people infected and the fact that most of the infection is in closed places only reinforces my feeling that this is a risk of bringing my children back to educational institutions." 

The Ministry of Education said: "We started his preparations for the start of the school year about six months ago (in January). In light of this, some of the outlines and procedures for the next year have long been published in the framework of the Community Center. In addition, over the next few days, the ministry will continue to publish additional parts of the educational institutions in an organized and orderly manner, while at the same time continuing to work on opening the year together with its educational partners. "   

You can see how complex this task is through the comments of Prof. Sigal Sadecki, the head of public health at the Ministry of Health, who announced her termination. According to her, in the absence of a match in the way the schools run in the Corona routine, "schools and kindergartens become fertile for the transmission and spread of the virus. Israel has opened educational frameworks quickly and to a large extent from most countries in the world. Without matching conditions, education systems cannot be opened."