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The parents are angry: "Get the kids back to routine" | Israel today

2020-09-01T21:03:09.711Z


| EducationParents of fifth- and sixth-graders: "Abandon the children, the gaps are growing" • Some of the students were not invited to the opening of the year • Ministry of Education: "Educational and emotional response" The outline of the Ministry of Education stipulates that fifth graders and above will study a minimum of two days in schools and all the rest of the time in distance learning. According to


Parents of fifth- and sixth-graders: "Abandon the children, the gaps are growing" • Some of the students were not invited to the opening of the year • Ministry of Education: "Educational and emotional response"

The outline of the Ministry of Education stipulates that fifth graders and above will study a minimum of two days in schools and all the rest of the time in distance learning.

According to the parents, this creates gaps between authorities and even in the same city.

But what still bothers them is that the fifth- and sixth-graders were not invited at all to open the school year, not even in a modest meeting.

Photo: Yoni Rickner, Moshe Ben Simhon, Paz Bar, Newsenders

The mother of a student on the streets said: "The children are only supposed to study on Wednesdays and Fridays, but for the system that started the school year it is irrelevant. Instead, they were given an opening zoom."

But what worries her is the gaps: "Other schools have got other things, it's a successful method of the municipality and it's a shame because it should be uniform. The gaps are growing, these students are going to compete for the same places in middle schools, because the grades determine and there are entrance tests. ".

"The first day of school and they were not even brought to a short ceremony, not even to an afternoon meeting with the teacher - just nothing," Dad told a sixth-grade student in a city in the north of the country.

"What kind of thing is it that students at this age only study two days a week, one of which is Friday? We're just furious."

According to the outline, the authorities are obliged to bring the students for two days of learning - but also for five days if there are the resources, the classes and the teachers to do so.

The outline, as we have written many times, creates gaps, probably among fifth- and sixth-graders, since some cities bring students to study frontally for four or even five days a week, and as mentioned, on the other hand there are cities where these students will study only two days.

Education Minister Galant on the start of the school year in the shadow of the Corona // Photo: Ministry of Education

In one city in the South, parents found that many schools were able to find creative solutions and allow fifth- and sixth-graders to study in capsules 5-4 days a week, while being left with only two days of learning: "No agenda, no social gathering, and significant learning gaps "Especially in preparation for promotion to middle school," the mother tells a sixth-grade student.

"We call on the Ministry of Education to return students to the line of sanity, to solve the problem with the Histadrut and to return them to a sane learning routine."

The Ministry of Education noted that about 90% of fifth- and sixth-grade students across the country study more than three days a week.

In places where this has not been possible, the ministry will work in collaboration with the schools to provide the answers if academic and emotional gaps accumulate.

We also noted that the ministry has allocated more than NIS 100 million for emotional responses.

Source: israelhayom

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