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2.4 million students return to school: "Can't stop the excitement"
The 2012/11 school year opened this morning in most parts of the country, while 140,000 students were forced to stay at home in the red cities.
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September 1st
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Dana Yarkatzi and Yoav Itiel
Tuesday, 01 September 2020, 08:17 Updated: 08:43
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Live broadcast from the Alon School in Givatayim (Photo: Yotam Ronen)
2.4 million students return to schools and kindergartens this morning (Tuesday), in the shadow of the restrictions and the outline that has been formulated for the Corona studies.
This year, many are required to get used to the reality that studies will not take place regularly in educational institutions but remotely, in video calls.
While most parts of the country Tsf"a school year opened at the end of summer vacation, about 140 thousand students in the cities of ripe red defined morbidity situation in which stayed indoors to discuss the issue on Thursday.
"Shrouded in secrecy year," said Eran Ben-Zeev, this theater teacher Nine years and an educator in the twelfth grade 6 at the Moshava school in Zichron Yaacov.
"I feel like I know no more than the students. I understand that I have a role to play in trying to lift and encourage, and even understand what the good things can be squeezed out of this year."
He even added with a smile: "I guess in a week or two the vaccine will be found in Corona and we will come back as great."
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Getting used to a new reality.
Sheffer School in Petah Tikva, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)
At Gil Rabin Elementary School in Sderot, classes opened today alongside fears of security escalation.
Despite this, the students showed up at the school in an attempt to get back to routine.
"We couldn't fall asleep at night from the excitement," said Vered Hengali, the school's principal.
"There is a festive atmosphere and a real happening. There was a fear of incendiary balloons and then we heard last night about a truce agreement so we calmed down a bit. Enough with the caravan, we really do not need the security issue. We hope it will be quiet and healthy. "
Hagit, a mother of a child at the school, said that her son was very excited about the start of the school year.
"We are less afraid of the security situation we are used to, and more of the corona," she said.
On the other hand, Dima Groisman, who also accompanied his children to school, claimed that the mirrors of the balloons hung in the yard of the building again raised the fear of launching incendiary balloons.
"I'm more worried about that," he said.
"Hope to get back to routine after a hard summer."
Gil Rabin School in Sderot, today (Photo: Shai Makhlouf)
At the Tzur Baher Girls' High School, a former student enlisted to help the educational staff.
She stood in the doorway of the school and took care of handing out the masks of those who were missing, and the students signed health declarations.
The principal of the Gadir Bashar school said that a long time had passed, and the students would arrive for five days, but on shifts between 11: 30-08: 00, ninth and tenth grades, and then 11-12.
"This year is difficult and we want to succeed and we have the strength and hope for a healthy year," she said.
"Want to succeed."
The school in Tzur Baher, today (Photo: Roni Kanfo)
Iam, accompanied her seven-year-old granddaughter to the elementary school in the village and said she had not been to school for half a year.
"Everyone is scared, but I know children are more immune to the corona. I'm glad she's going but also scared. She likes to go to school. Usually when you don't go to school you go to the sea and have fun, but because of the corona they were always at home."
Her granddaughter added: "I'm happy to be back in school, to see the friends."
Distribution of masks at the entrance.
Tzur Baher, today (Photo: Roni Kanfo)
332 schools and 716 kindergartens remained closed this morning following morbidity.
962 were diagnosed as blue, of whom 339 were teaching staff.
About 5,519 (of whom 1,613 teaching staff) were required for isolation.
In those that started operating today, a thermometer was placed at the entrance, and in each classroom a hygienic position was set for disinfecting hands and cloths for cleaning surfaces.
Reusable masks were given to teaching staff.
In addition, the regular cleaning system will be strengthened, and signs with information on healthy behavior will be hung throughout the educational institutions.
A few hours before the start of school, the threat of disabling kindergartens and first and second grades was removed, but temporarily.
The teachers' union and the state reached an understanding by September 24, after which a strike may be on the table again.
How will the school year go and what is expected of students and teachers?
all the answers.
Hygiene positions in schools.
Petah Tikva, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Another issue that arose prior to the start of the year is accompanying the children on the days of adjustment.
Parents of kindergarten and first graders were allowed to accompany their children in accordance with guidelines approved by the Ministries of Education and Health.
In kindergartens, each permanent group will contain up to six parents, who will enter the compound in a graded manner and for a limited period of time.
In first grades, the adjustment will take place in groups of up to ten parents.
Parents must adhere to the rules of hygiene - maintaining a distance of two meters and wearing a mask.
Main outline of return to school
Kindergartens - will operate in full format
Grades A and B - will operate in full format
Grades 3-4 - will study in full format, up to 18 students per class
5th-6th grades - distance learning outline and in institutions (up to 18 students) for at least two days in school
Grades 7-12 - Distance learning outline and in institutions (up to 18 students) at least two days in school
Combining studies in capsules.
Petah Tikva, this morning (Photo: Reuven Castro)
As part of the Ministry of Education's "Learning in Security" outline, the method of learning in each age group will be conducted differently and in a combination of full classrooms and capsules, alongside distance learning.
At the same time, schools that have received approval from the district superintendent will be able to operate in a different format, such as learning in open spaces, adding classrooms or learning in shifts.
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