In a letter sent by a senior finance official to the Ministry of Health, it was claimed that the effectiveness of distance learning in the lower grades is minimal • The Teachers 'Union: "We will not allow workers' rights to be violated"
Controversy again:
As part of the closure preparations in the education system, tonight (Wednesday) the Ministry of Finance called on the Ministry of Education to consider not conducting distance learning in the lower classes, with the aim that school days will be returned in the summer.
A letter sent by the Deputy Minister of Finance at the Ministry of Education to the director general of the Ministry of Education reads: "We have many findings that indicate the low effectiveness of distance learning in relation to frontal teaching, with emphasis on the lower stages of education - kindergartens and elementary school." "The parents' low satisfaction with the distance learning and their preference for it not to be carried out at the lower age stages in the event of a closure."
As mentioned, now that we are facing a further closure of the education system, the Ministry of Finance demands that we re-consider distance learning, as it is written in the letter "We call on you to examine in depth the effectiveness of the distance work done during the last closure regarding the lower age groups The work actually performed by the teaching staff and the parents' satisfaction with the said work, and reconsider the various options available to the ministry in the closure before us. "
According to the Ministry of Finance, "Preparations for quarantine learning must be done in close cooperation with all concerned, including parents and local government, while maximizing the needs of children and parents, and not for operational or organizational convenience."
In doing so, they are stinging the Ministry of Education and intend to intimidate them into confronting teachers 'organizations and the large sums of money paid to teachers afterwards as part of the Great Freedom School project as the teachers' union did not agree to return school days on the grounds that they taught remotely.
They added: "Especially at this time it is important to reiterate that proper management of the resources available to the Ministry of Education must be done while maintaining a tight budget framework.
The teachers 'union, Education Minister Yoav Galant, made it clear unequivocally upon taking office, both to the secretary general of the teachers' union and to the Knesset education committee, that distance learning is equivalent to frontal learning and that teaching staff will not hurt their salaries.
"Minister Galant has been fighting resolutely with us for this principle since the beginning of his term and we are confident that he will stand up to the attempts of finance officials, led by Moshe Bachar, to hurt the wonderful educators and seek budgetary sources for the deficits they have created in their unprofessional conduct. Of teaching staff, especially in a complex and challenging period, re-invested several times more than in a normal period, "they added.