Among all the dilemmas facing the education system at the beginning of the school year, the question arises as to what to do with the unvaccinated teachers.
As published yesterday (Thursday) by the Ministry of Education, there are about 32,000 teachers who are not vaccinated out of about 200,000 teachers, of which about 2,000 teachers can not be vaccinated.
Recently, there have been more and more voices calling for teachers to also be required to sign a green card, meaning not to allow them to enter educational institutions without a vaccine or without an updated corona test.
The national parents' leadership called for the safety procedures to be applied to teaching staff, warning against harming the health of their children: "We must enforce the obligation to be vaccinated and present a test to the school staff. We will ask the heads of the teachers' organizations to sharpen the message to teachers who refuse to be vaccinated - respect your decision not to be vaccinated, but do not endanger the health of children and their families."
Students in the class (photographed have nothing to do with the news), Dudu Greenspan
The chairman of the teachers' union, Ran Erez, also expressed his support for the idea. And to parents. "
Yesterday, corona data in the education system indicated about 23,000 active patients in the education system, and another 72,000 students who are in isolation.
A total of about 95,000 students are "absent", meaning those who cannot go to kindergartens or schools on a school routine.
According to Dr. Ze'ev Feldman, chairman of the State Physicians' Association and acting chairman of the Hari: "Anyone who can must get vaccinated. This is on our minds. "Otherwise, it would be irresponsible for them to teach in the classrooms. It is important to strictly follow the green classroom guidelines formulated by the Corona experts."
He added that the school year should be postponed to October 1, this will help moderate the infections and the increase in patients, and will create a complementary effect to the third vaccine. "
The chairman of the Education Committee at the Regional Government Center and the head of the Ramat Hanegev Council, Eran Doron, also claims that unvaccinated teachers should not be admitted to the classroom without a check: "It is not possible for unvaccinated teachers to enter the school unless they check every day.
Only if it turns out that they are not sick will they be able to enter the school grounds.
I expect every educational institution to make sure that all teaching staff who come in contact with students are vaccinated from corona, or who passed an examination that morning. "
In addition, citizens who are not vaccinated and who have not presented negative test results in the school field should be avoided. "
Studies during Corona (archive), Oren Ben Hakon
The teachers' union, which represents the kindergarten teachers, claimed in response that "what will be imposed on all workers in the economy, such as doctors, nurses, police officers and others, will also be imposed on teaching staff. At present, as stated, there is no regulation ".
It should be noted that the data presented by the director general of the Ministry of Education, Yigal Slovik, is worrying. He claimed, for example, that there are about 3,000 unvaccinated kindergarten teachers in the education system (ages 6-3). There are a huge shortage of kindergarten teachers in about 20,000 kindergartens, and in any case there is a huge shortage of teachers.
