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With masks, tests and great excitement: 2,458,000 students opened the school year
Millions of students have returned to schools and kindergartens after a disrupted year due to the corona.
176,000 started school in the first grade, along with 240,000 who were forced to open the year with a zoom.
The Ministry of Education warned: "The arrival of a teacher without a green mark or examination - a disciplinary offense."
Jordan, who is in third grade: "It's stressful and exciting"
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Wednesday, 01 September 2021, 07:00 Updated: 09:42
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In the video: Opening the school year (Photo: Niv Aharonson, Yoav Itiel)
Live broadcast from Bennett and Shasha Bitton's visit to a school in Yeruham (Photo: Shai Makhlouf)
2,458,000 students will open the new school year this morning (Wednesday), after most of last year were forced to spend online and disruptively due to the Corona crisis. The Ministry of Education announced that no unusual incidents have been reported so far, except for an outbreak in Umm Batin in the Negev, where 27 students were diagnosed with the virus. Fourteen school principals refused to be tested but were reluctant.
"Finally returning to school," greeted Oren, who accompanied his son with me to the Gabrieli school in Tel Aviv. "We saw the movie on the tests on YouTube, it was not that complicated. We will not be tested every day, but it is not such a matter. We have done a lot of tests lately, for a movie, a pool, a dimension. It is not a story, much better than closing the school." .
He said, "Like in summer camps, here too there is pressure to isolate, a text message arrives that is found to be verified patient. I was in isolation twice. We are not afraid of the disease, the children take it easily. Logistics is what is complicated. Past. "
Itai added that he is "excited to see the friends."
Jordan, who is in third grade, admitted that going back to school is "stressful and exciting, because it's something new and I'm not used to it yet."
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Eran Ben Zeev, an educator at the Moshava Zichron Yaacov school, stated that "life is stronger than any scenario."
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Because the morning opened without a hitch, and because the rate of those vaccinated at school is very high - Bi'a passed 90% and Bi'a 98.6%.
"Cautious optimism," Udi Amichai, a father of David, who is in the first grade at the Jonathan Zacks High School in Jerusalem, described the opening of the school year in the shadow of the Corona.
We think that schools should also be opened with the level of morbidity, and closing them down should be a last resort. "
"safe optimism".
Shapira School in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)
176,000 children will take their first steps in school and begin learning in first grade.
In the 2007/08 school year, there are 5,360 schools, an increase of 1,000 institutions compared to last year, along with 21,000 kindergartens. A total of 79,000 classrooms will open their doors this year, an increase of 19,000 compared to last year. The Ministry of Education's budget in 2022 is 67.1 NIS
240
billion.
240,000 students will still have to start the school year remotely, including about 150,000 students in grades 8-12 in red authorities who study in classes with less than 70% exemption from isolation and vaccinated, and another 90,000 isolated.
The final figure will be published by the Dashboard.
According to the director general of the Ministry of Education, Yigal Slovik, there are 4,516 classrooms in which there are less than 70% vaccinated.
"Excited."
Shapira School in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)
4,213 teachers and staff are also in isolation.
9.9% of the tests conducted on Monday among students and teachers were found to be positive.
756,769 students received a first dose of the vaccine, and 580,311 are defined as vaccinated, a number that constitutes 24.2% of all students.
According to the director general of the Ministry of Education, 87% of the teaching staff are vaccinated for Corona, while about 18,000 teaching staff and 18,000 teaching supporters are not vaccinated and will be required to take tests to enter schools. If he arrives at the classroom without a green mark or a negative test, he commits a disciplinary offense, and the conduct may amount to an offense under the penal code. "
24.2% of all students are defined as vaccinated (Photo: Reuven Castro)
According to outline the final and complete published yesterday the Ministry of Education, the communities defined by the Ministry of Health of green, yellow and orange - kindergartens, after-school programs, and classes I-XII will in full measure in accordance with the schedule set forth, every day of the week.
Localities red - kindergartens In first and fourth grades and in the afternoons, learning will take place as usual, within the framework. In another format.
In contrast, in eighth-twelfth grades in the red authorities, students will switch to open-air or distance learning if the class has less than 70% isolation exemptions. Bennett decided last night that eighth-twelfth grade students who received the first vaccine dose would be considered vaccinated, only during the month of September, when they would then be required to complete the second vaccine dose in order to be considered vaccinated.
In the 2007/02 school year, there were 5,360 schools (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton said last night that the ministry would not hesitate to change the opening outline in accordance with changes in morbidity indices.
"We have a plan drawn up together with the Ministry of Health and accompanied by experts and professionals. We will not hesitate to change it and adapt it to the evolving reality," she said during a press conference in the special situation room set up at the Ministry of Education ahead of the opening.
"This year we will focus mainly on reducing the gaps following the last year and a half in literacy studies of grades one, two and three, preparing for the 11th-12th matriculation in which we announced that we will reduce the number of exams to five matriculation exams, and strengthening core studies in all grades. Age, "she continued.
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