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After the leap in verified: Should the school year be opened or postponed?
Calls to postpone the start of the school year until after the holidays, despite the government's position, intensified with the crossing of the 8,000 diagnosed threshold.
However, even teachers who support the opening of the education system are frustrated by the agreed outline, which they claim does not provide an appropriate solution.
"Last year we received budgets. This year there is none"
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Yael Friedson
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 10:25 Updated: 10:26
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The peak of diagnoses recorded this morning (Tuesday) raised question marks over the outline of returning to school published yesterday. The jump to more than 8,000 verified, along with the small number of school days during the Tishrei holidays, led to calls to postpone the opening of the year in schools until after the holidays, and supporters of the September 1 outline also claim that it does not provide an adequate response.
"Even regardless of the corona, it is better to postpone the start of the school year, but the corona is an opportunity for change," said Elia Michaeli, 31, a teacher at the Hebrew Gymnasium High School in Herzliya in Tel Aviv. "There are so few school days in September, eight striped work days, do not overdo it. You can easily return the school days on the big holiday, and start the year properly, without unnecessary breaks. Every year it is not right to start studying and go on holiday, It hurts the academic continuum, especially this year. "
"Teachers' organizations do not think about these voices, the Minister of Education does not listen," she added. It is not a great disaster to complete eight school days later this year. "
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Calls to postpone the start of the school year until after the holidays are growing (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Inbal Ron, on the other hand, CEO of the Dror Schools chain, opposes postponing the school year. Ranging from anxieties, depressions, social deprivations in students - which are very difficult to bridge. We see in the data eating disorders and isolation. These are the effects of closures, learning to zoom. "
"It is very important to open the school year and hold the school in a way that allows for a meeting - both in elementary school, in middle school, in high school," she said. "The year of the Corona has shown how important it is to have educational and social gatherings. To say that September has some school days is not to understand the insane loneliness that has been going on for a whole year. In primary schools and kindergartens these are very significant 15 days. "Two and a half months off, and if they postpone the opening of studies, it creates three and a half months of vacation, close to a third of the year."
The solution, she says, is to go back to capsules and learning outside the classroom. "In social schools there is a lot of learning outside anyway, and we believe in learning from our environment. It needs to be expanded. The aspects I look at are first and foremost social, emotional, human. The curriculum can be completed, but our mission first and foremost as educators is Meet the students. "
Outline of return to studies, including serological tests, which have already begun in the ultra-Orthodox sector (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Dalia Peretz, principal of Amit Elementary School in Meitar and chairman of a national board of directors in the Histadrut, also supports the opening of the school year. Which gives more of a response to certain scenarios we have already experienced.
We are learning from experience, "she explains." The outline says that everything is as usual, it gives nothing beyond, no tools, no instructions on what to do, no resources for splitting classes into capsules.
Last year we got budgets to buy alcohol, masks, everything we needed.
This year does not have it.
Today they ask for the same thing and do not give anything. "
Peretz criticizes the guidelines for examining classes in which one verifier was discovered, in order to continue with the study routine.
"According to the outline, if teachers are infected, they should do tests every day and work as usual. What happens if teachers and students decide not to take a test and stay at home? What should a principal do with teachers who are absent and what response are given to children who are at home?" In primary schools. It is very difficult to recruit temporary staff. In the previous year there were preparations for a number of scenarios. We were given resources of corona hours, we received teaching supporters raised by the authorities, today there are no budgets. To act in any situation. "
The outline for the opening of the year
According to the outline, all age groups will return to school on September 1, without capsules.
The outline includes serological tests, which have already begun in the ultra-Orthodox sector, and rapid tests for those who come into contact with verified people, in order to continue the study routine and reduce isolation for teachers and students.
However, eighth-twelfth grade students in red cities, in grades where less than 70% are vaccinated or recovering, will learn from home in online learning. The immunization threshold will include vaccinated, recovering students with a positive serological test result. Grades 1-7. Will operate according to the "Education Shield" outline.
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