Committee chairman MK Ram Shefa said the government should find adequate compensation for parents who were forced to stay home with their children • "They are the ones who carry the economy on their shoulders"
The chairman of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee, MK Ram Shefa, said today (Wednesday) at the opening of a meeting on the restrictions on the activities of educational institutions that the committee must not approve the regulations submitted by the government, as long as no compensation is given to young parents who stay home with their children.
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"We demanded the opening of education frameworks for children in the lower age groups, but the government did not do that and put us in a situation where we as a committee have no ability to exclude the lower age groups based on morbidity data. What happens is that a million young parents have to go to work ".
The committee's chairman, MK Shefa, added: "I appeal to the prime minister and the corona cabinet to say that they understand the million young people who are in trouble, including teachers who, while teaching, have children at home. We are talking about the public carrying the economy on its shoulders, therefore "We need to think of a solution for it, such as a law that will protect them from dismissal or any other compensation. As long as the Corona Cabinet convenes, we must not approve the regulations."
Some members of the committee demanded that the frameworks be opened for young people so that parents could go to work, claiming that the morbidity figures in kindergartens and day care centers were significantly lower.
However, in view of the growing morbidity, it is assumed that the regulations will not be significantly changed and all educational institutions, even those intended for preschoolers and lower grades, will remain closed.
Meanwhile, those who are in an impossible situation are the parents - who on the one hand are forced to go to work because the economy operates almost normally, and on the other hand have to deal with the lack of frameworks for children.
It is also a painful blow to the owners of the private kindergartens, who subsist on parental payments and claim that they will collapse if the kindergartens are not opened.
While educational institutions are closed, distance learning takes place at all age levels.
Among the kindergartens, there is an activity that the Ministry of Education defines as "maintaining contact" - group conversations with the kindergarten teachers or giving short assignments to the children.
The Ministry of Education insists that maintaining contact with the children has added value.
"In a time of emergency and uncertainty, it is important to give the child a framework that allows him to maintain a routine and contact with his friends and the educational staff," notes Orna Paz, director of the pre-primary department at the Ministry of Education. "In this regard, maintaining the teacher's contact with the child is of paramount importance."
And there are also parents who boycott distance learning.
"I am expected to be the teacher of my children and that means I have to leave everything, the care at home, preparing food and also the care of the other children," says Sheeran Yahya from Jerusalem, a mother of six, "all the responsibility falls on me. "Pages or pass the Westap links so they can be accessed on a computer. I find myself trying to maneuver and it's not possible, so I decided not to cooperate with the whole subject of distance learning. I am not willing to be subject to the crazy Ministry of Education schedule.
