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Learning in the public space instead of zoom: Tel Aviv Municipality outline for the return of grades 7-12

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NEWS It is learned that the municipality has formulated a program that will allow middle and high school students to physically study for two days a week in urban buildings.

The planning requires the approval of the Ministry of Education, and the intention is to harness local authorities.

"If we sit idly by, the students will stay home until Passover"

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Sonia Gorodisky

Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 10:58

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In the video: The Minister of Education calls for the education system to be put back into action (Photo: 2nd National Education Conference - Bnei Akiva Yeshiva Center and Makor Rishon)

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality is currently working on an independent outline of returning to school for seventh-twelfth grades in a format that combines physical learning - Walla! NEWS learned today (Wednesday). According to the outline, students will come to school two days a week, and on three days The rest will continue with distance learning. The plan will include the opening of public spaces and urban buildings for the benefit

of classrooms. "Twelve will be done while adhering to the rules of the Ministry of Health and above all helping our youth and their parents return to routine and life."

The implementation of the program requires the approval of the Ministry of Education, where are not yet aware of the initiative.

This raises the question of the need to transfer some of the ministry's powers to local authorities who claim to be able to better manage their educational institutions.

Sitting at home for close to seven months.

High school students (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"If we do not prepare it, it will not happen," explained Shirley Rimon Bracha, director of the Tel Aviv municipality's director of education.

"I believe that if we sit idly by, these children will sit at home until after the Passover holiday. We must work to get them back to school."

Rimon Bracha noted that about a month ago, Mayor Ron Huldai, together with the Bnei Brak municipality, led the move to return first- and fourth-graders to five days a week instead of two, as initially proposed by the Ministry of Education.

The outline presented by Huldai and the mayor of Bnei Brak, Avraham Rubinstein, included the return of the students for a full school week, while the outline proposed by Jerusalem was only partial.

The struggle was successful, and the number of frontal learning days in grades one through four currently stands at five to six days, depending on the local authority.

According to Rimon Bracha, "When we heard we were talking about two or three days, we said we know how to do it better. We will not sit and wait until we are given powers, we take the powers. When we realized we were talking about two days and the need for huge budgets and weeks of assessments, we said More easily, and we have proven that it is possible. "

"Taking the powers."

Rimon Bracha (Photo: Courtesy of the Tel Aviv Municipality)

With the exception of short breaks in May and a few days in September, fifth- to twelfth-grade students have been at home for seven months. Rimon Bracha said the educational staff indicates a latent dropout phenomenon among a quarter of middle and high school students. These are students who do not zoom in or close the cameras. So you can not know they are attending classes.

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The Director of Education expressed concern about the psychological effects of the prolonged stay in the youth home.

"They will have maturity, but who will take care of the mental distress?", She explained.

"We are exposed to a lot of disturbing stories among teenagers - eating disorders among adolescents, symptoms of depression, children who do not leave the room for days, we also recognize that the ages of drug and alcohol consumption have recently dropped from 14 to 12. All of these are the result of a lack of educational framework For such a long time. "

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