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2021-04-01T06:22:26.529Z


| Education Against the background of the decrease in the number of students in isolation: The Ministry of Education wants to return to full learning, but is not sure that the Ministry of Health will approve • "There is no logic in the current format" Studies in the education system after the Passover holiday are expected to resume this coming Monday. Now, just before returning to school, the question arises


Against the background of the decrease in the number of students in isolation: The Ministry of Education wants to return to full learning, but is not sure that the Ministry of Health will approve • "There is no logic in the current format"

Studies in the education system after the Passover holiday are expected to resume this coming Monday.

Now, just before returning to school, the question arises as to how the students will return to the classrooms.

Back to school after the third closure // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon, Paz Bar, Newsenders

"If they ask us, we can send mobility and vaccinate students in schools. This is not a problem, we have already done it," says a senior education ministry official in Pfizer's announcement that its vaccine to deal with the corona virus is effective and safe for young people aged 12 to 15.

According to the senior, "It will require parental consent and the like, but it can be made accessible. It will be more effective to vaccinate them in schools, it can work better."

The education system is interested in seeing a complete return to routine, without capsules and all days of the week for all ages - but there is great doubt about the possibility that the Ministry of Health will allow this.

According to a senior official in the education system, "it makes no sense to leave the education system in its current format, which is studying in capsules in half days, in grades 4-12, it is just abuse of students and the system."

The source noted that the immunization data show that 75% of the teaching staff were vaccinated, and that 66% of the 11th-12th grade students were also vaccinated.

It should be mentioned that the Minister of Education, Yoav Galant, demanded to open the entire education system immediately after Pesach, in favor of learning in full groups in all localities and throughout the week, due to the drastic decline in morbidity in the country in general and the education system in particular.

Galant has announced that he intends to fight for a full and comprehensive opening of the entire education system.

According to him, "the economy is fully open, there are more than 5 million vaccinated in Israel - and the morbidity data is constantly declining. It is time to return all students to schools in full groups and throughout the week. This should be done immediately upon returning from the Passover holiday."

The minister added that "educational institutions are safe and prepared for a quick and optimal return to a full routine. The wrong decision should be corrected, which puts Israeli students in the last place in the national priority."

However, in the vicinity of the commissioner for the struggle in Corona, Prof. Nachman Ash, they point out that no such decision has yet been made, but that discussions are taking place in the education system.

However, it is doubtful whether the Ministry of Health will allow full and comprehensive return for all age groups, certainly when students under the age of 16 are not vaccinated.

Summer will be good with schools

It should be noted that the number of students staying in solitary confinement is constantly declining and stood at about 27,000 students last weekend, but the cancellation of the capsules may lead to an increase in the number of students entering solitary confinement, as a sick student will now insulate an entire class - not a small group.

However, the change and warming in the weather may work in favor of schools.

If until now students were not allowed to study outside due to the cold and rain in winter, now, with the arrival of spring, teachers will be able to teach outside the classroom, thus bringing students to many more study hours in order to reduce the gaps.

"Promote 'Education Shield'"

Some experts also oppose the sweeping cancellation of the capsules: Prof. Hagai Levin of the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital, former chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians, says: "Immunized classes over the age of 16 must return to full activity.

At younger ages, action should be taken on the basis of professional risk management, while adapting to risk in the community, in collaboration between health, education and community experts.

It is very important to return to an education routine for the health and development of Israeli children, but not with a black-and-white approach, but with a professional approach that balances the risk of infection with the risk of harm to studies. "

According to Prof. Levin, one should not wait for the last minute: "The education system can be opened while taking the necessary precautions during the Corona period - vaccinating staff, isolating patients, detecting and containing outbreaks, ventilation and masking. Attention should be paid to communities where the vaccination rate is not optimal. And to promote the 'Shield of Education' program. "

A change that has already been decided on before the Passover holiday, and which will take effect after returning from the holiday, is the abolition of the capsules in third grades, and accordingly beyond learning in full groups in this age group.

Education and teaching assistants who used the Justo classes to reinforce the fifth- and sixth-grade classes.

In addition, teaching staff and outside operators with a green label will be able to switch between groups without restriction.

Source: israelhayom

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