• news
• Corona

Studies in the days of Corona

Reduction in ceremonies, without change in trips: Outline of the Ministry of Education to reduce parental payments

The Knesset's Education Committee will discuss the issue of reducing payments to schools and kindergartens. This, following the cancellation of many activities due to the limitations of the corona. According to the Ministry of Education's outline, cultural payments will be reduced by 10%, and graduation ceremonies by 50%. Collection for textbooks and trips - will not change

• Ministry of Education
• Yoav Galant
• Knesset Education Committee
• Knesset
• schools
• Kinder gardens

Dana Yarkatzi

Live broadcast from the Knesset Education Committee

The Knesset Education Committee will hold a discussion today (Tuesday) on the issue of reducing parental payments to schools and kindergartens due to corona restrictions. This is due to the demand to cancel payment for activities that are not relevant following the epidemic like enrichment, culture and annual trips. The Ministry of Education is expected to present an outline of a partial reduction in payments, especially in culture and graduation ceremonies.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Health, the amount of payment for a culture basket will be reduced by 10% in relation to the amounts
approved in the previous school year, in all age groups. Graduation ceremonies will also be held at the venue for graduation parties, with the maximum amount to be collected for them being reduced by 50% compared to last year. In addition, parents will not be asked to pay for class parties.

However, the fees for lending textbooks, trips, NIS, local parent committees - will remain unchanged from last year.

More on Walla! NEWS

• Crisis in day care centers and private kindergartens: "No compensation - does not open on September 1."
• Afternoon subsidy has been frozen, parents and authorities threaten to strike: "We will not bear the costs"
• 5 things that must be done soon when entering a new and empty apartment

As for the additional curricula (TLN), for enrichment purposes, the payment will be reduced by about 60% compared to last year. According to the Ministry of Education, TLN can be held in accordance with the approved outlines in kindergartens and schools or by distance learning.

In kindergartens, it will be possible to charge a fee of up to three hours, in schools up to two hours and in Torah institutions up to five hours. Tuition for them will not be charged.

Education Minister Yoav Galant stated yesterday that the reduction in parental payments will be significant. "There will be a reduction in the authority's payments of certain percentages, which includes the graduation parties and the culture basket," he said in a briefing to reporters. "The bulk of the weight of the payment is the additional curricula, and here too there will be a significant reduction in parental payments." According to him, "there will be a significant reduction that will be reflected in a reduction of thousands of shekels."

More on Walla! NEWS

One accompanying parent for first grade, reduction in payments: This is what the school year will look like

To the full article

In a discussion held at the committee last Wednesday, the Ministry of Education asked to approve the parents' payments as they are, and at the same time canceled the discount of 24 shekels for parties and events from last year. Because the ministry and former director general Shmuel Aboav did not present an appropriate outline, the committee did not vote on approving the parents' payments

. On the other hand, the chairman of the national parent leadership, Merom Schiff, said that there are payment clauses concerning activities that cannot be performed from a health point of view, and therefore should be abolished.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Education published the pedagogical program for the 2007-2008 school year, which will open in about two weeks, against the background of the corona epidemic. As part of the program, on the first day of school, parents will accompany kindergarten children in small groups. at the entrance to the garden. grades will be parents in groups of up to ten students, and each child accompanied by one parent only. outline graduation exams will consist of up to six essential professions, and study material will be reduced by tens of percent.

leadership of the national parents Association opposed the proposed outline, and threatened that if not removed from the burden of payments From the parents - the school year will not open. "The outline for opening the year, which harms millions of students and their parents, in practice makes education only for the rich," it was said. "It must be abolished or changed immediately."

Main outline of the Ministry of Education for the opening of the year:

• Gardens for ages 3
• Rated and limited arrival on the first day
• Parents will separate from their children at the entrance to the kindergarten
• Gardens for 5-4 year olds
• Normal activity from day one
• First grades
• Arrival in groups of up to 10 students
• More one parent escort per child
• Reception of students will take place in complexes of up to 20 people
• The curriculum will include missing processes from the kindergarten period
• 7th graders
• There will be activities to identify difficulties and distress
• A physical and online opening ceremony will be held at the same time
• 10th grade
• You will be introduced to the digital tools and ready for the matriculation exams
• Matriculation
• There will be 3 external exams in English, math and mother tongue
• 2 external exams to choose from in the humanities cluster and another enhanced profession
• Matriculation study material will be reduced by about 10% -30%

The chairman of the National Parents' Leadership, Mirom Schiff, said that "the outline will force hundreds of thousands of children to be left alone at home all year round, with uncontrolled exposure to online and street hazards. Eliminating subsidies tabloid papers increases the burden of payments to parents particularly in the periphery, and the imposition of the restriction prohibiting union frames offensive practice livelihood of hundreds of thousands of parents. "

Schiff also referred to the lack of funding educational program as HILA, claiming that this" betrayal of public and compulsory education That was enacted for the benefit of all the children of Israel wherever they are. " He said it would "lead to the expulsion from the system of 9,000 children and teenagers".