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In the face of the raging epidemic, in the third closure, the education system also gave up

The Minister of Education admits that a comprehensive closure will not be possible alongside the activities of schools and kindergartens, teachers refuse to take risks as long as they are not vaccinated and even parents understand that there is no choice in the current disease situation.

The forces that until recently fought to continue learning in classrooms in any situation, know that in this round the Corona won

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Sonia Gorodisky

Wednesday, 06 January 2021, 12:44

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The various factors in the education system - teaching staff, parents and staff of the Ministry of Education - have so far fought with all their might for the opening of schools in every situation for a variety of reasons, educational, social and emotional alike.

However, for a change, the abnormal morbidity data and the spread of the corona virus among students and teachers also led them to support the decision to impose a comprehensive and tight closure, in which classes will be held only in distance learning starting this Friday and for two weeks.

Organizations such as the National Parents 'Leadership and the "Leaders" Principals' Organization, which in the past waged a stubborn struggle to operate the education system even during closure days, this time responded with understanding.

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returning home.

Students in Petah Tikva (Photo: Reuven Castro)

First, it also concerns the head of the system - Education Minister

Yoav Galant

, who until recently protested against any attempt to shut down schools, but reacted differently to the impending closure.

"I understand my responsibility to steer the education system I am in charge of so that it will assist in the national effort to create a full, inclusive and complete closure," Galant said at the cabinet meeting where the tightening of restrictions was approved.

"I have made it clear that schools and educational institutions are not a source of infection, but a cause of morbidity. And yet, if Israeli students study extensively, a general closure will not be possible. This is what we have seen in recent weeks. Illegal of the widespread movements around the education system, "Galant added.

"Therefore, despite the vital need of students to reach the educational institutions - I am forced to harness the entire education system for the national need of curbing the spread of the epidemic through a short and intensive closure, throughout the economy and including the education system."

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At the same time, he called for the exclusion of special education, the frameworks for at-risk youth and the format for the 11th-12th grade students that are expected to take place during the closure, and asked to vaccinate the teaching staff as long as the students stay at home.

Teachers and kindergarten teachers: "Sad but right decision"

Teachers, who continue to fight for priority in line for vaccines against Corona, have expressed support for the closure of schools and kindergartens in light of current morbidity figures.

"Teachers are endangering their lives, their families' lives and the lives of their students," says

Sharon Sage

, a high school teacher named after Yitzhak Navon in Holon, who is convinced that this is a necessary step.

"Every teacher meets dozens of students every day who come back from dozens of different families. The circle that surrounds the teacher every day turns the education system into a system that spreads the virus in the most dangerous way. Close the education system. "

Dorit Hazan

, chairwoman of the Association of Kindergarten Teachers, said that this is also true of early childhood institutions. "At this time there is no choice but to close the kindergartens," said Hazan.

Closing the gardens is a sad but right decision.

"The special education teachers who have been excluded must be vaccinated immediately."

"Teachers are endangering their lives, their families' lives and the lives of their students."

Teacher Sharon Sage (courtesy of the photographer)

Even

Smadar Morse

, director of the School of Landscape in Tel Aviv, admits that "the closure is inevitable phase in the education system."

At the same time, she clarified that "the situation of children and youth who suffer from increasing distress of disconnection, addictions, anxieties, fears, obesity, etc. must not be forgotten. All of these must be addressed continuously through the educational factors in schools in cooperation with all professional bodies The local ".

Morse joined the call to vaccinate the teaching staff as soon as possible.

"Vaccines should be promoted to all education staffs in the country in a quick and immediate operation that does not exceed three days at most," she said.

"Education teams are at the forefront of education and the economy in the State of Israel, and it is inconceivable that time and time again they will be abandoned by the decision-makers and will remain in the assembly. Their safety, security and health must be ensured without any further delay."

"Not to forget the plight of the youth."

Smadar Morse, principal of Nofim School (Photo: Rami Bezalel, courtesy of the photographer)

The organization of school

leaders

"

leaders

" said things in a similar vein, calling for a further reduction in the requirements of the matriculation exams to make it easier for students in the face of the many academic challenges.

"We respect the decision to complete the closure, but reiterate our call on the Ministry of Education to reduce the matriculation exam requirements as we have demanded from the beginning, unfortunately without a satisfactory response from the ministry. .

Parents: The time has come for full enforcement

In the face of these, parents reacted with disappointment mixed with disappointment to the decision to leave their children in homes for at least 14 days, demanding that the state better manage the crisis and without political considerations in the decision-making process and enforcement.

"I am a law-abiding citizen and I have to make the decision because there is no other choice. I just hope it amounts to two weeks and no more. I have three children in the education system and I usually work from home, only when everyone works from home, it's a little harder to work," she says.

Scout Golan

, mother of four children from Rehovot.

"I'll have to practice learning zoom for three kids - ages 6, 9 and 13. Zoom genes is like a very noisy hive, it's a lot of kids making faces at each other, it's hard. I also don't have learning positions that will suffice for everyone at home, I also need to connect "Zoom out of the house, and they will have to split, there will be lessons they will not get into and we will have to prioritize," she admits.

"The kids have already exhausted the zoom."

Scout Golan (Photo: Aviv Golan)

Golan mentions that apart from the academic consequences, distance learning also has an emotional price.

"There will be a lot of crying. Do not go to friends and do not go out, no meetings outside, once again be locked at home, all the time with the zoom, even the little my 7th grade son, who saw his friends twice a week, will no longer be," she said .

"The seventh-grader has seen his school maybe ten times since the beginning of the year, and he has exhausted the zoom. He is no longer able to concentrate inside it," she continued.

"His pedagogical staff is amazing, but the children have already exhausted the zoom. I would be very happy if in this closure they put the emphasis on the social and emotional aspect of the children. Let them leave the pedagogy for a while at a young age and see how to give emotional and social space."

"Forced to harness the entire education system to stem the epidemic."

Galant (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni / Flash 90)

Golan is convinced that the additional closure could have been avoided if the crisis had been managed in another way.

"If they had taken the steps they needed to take in time, and if they had addressed the sectors that needed to be addressed, rather than managing the crisis for political reasons, the closure could have been avoided," she said. "This closure will only succeed if it is on everyone."

The national parents' leadership demanded that the education system "be the first to return at the end of the closure," and clarified their expectations of the system in light of the decision to close the educational institutions.

"The time has come for full enforcement, without distinction in such and other sectors, while imposing fines on violators of the closure," said

Mirom Schiff

, chairman of the organization, "We expect the Ministry of Education to stop distance learning in kindergartens and make sure to return these days."

We expect the Ministry of Education to re-examine the scope of the material and the method of assessment for matriculation students.

At the same time, all teaching staff must be vaccinated, so that the education system will continue to operate as a series, immediately after the closure, without fear, until the end of the school year. "

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