Wake-up call: The
Ministry of Education has many, large and good programs, which are also shared by the Ministry of Health.
For example, a control center that can monitor morbidity, Corona trustees whose job it is to be responsible for implementing regulations and lifestyles, the "Green Classroom" pilot, an education protection program and more.
But what they all have in common is that their application in the field is flawed.
In some cases it is an incorrect and insufficient preparation of the area, in some cases in bureaucracy and lack of coordination between the ministries that failed the plans, and in some cases things did not happen due to budgetary considerations.
Thus, for example, the saga of antigen testing as a condition for entering schools after the holiday, and the resolute opposition of the teachers' union to monitor it.
The secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, opposes the outline because the teachers are the ones who are supposed to be in charge of checking the permits and preventing students from entering.
But in order to save on salary payments, these trustees will only start work in October, after the students return from the holiday.
Due to budget considerations, 5,000 Corona trustees were not recruited as early as September, but their employment will wait until October, and even then they will be employed for only three months in the first phase.
This creates a serious problem for teaching staff, who do not want to be "cops" and prevent students from entering the school.
Another example is the UAV of the Ministry of Education, whose role is, among other things, to investigate contacts between sick students through epidemiological researchers.
At the end of the previous school year, the work of many dozens of researchers was stopped, so that out of 250 researchers, their number was reduced to only 35.
With the start of the school year, the Ministry of Education began recruiting them again through an outside company - but still failed to meet all the necessary standards.
Because of this, the principals claim, the array collapses and they are forced to conduct epidemiological investigations themselves.
This case, too, led to opposition from the Teachers' Union, which instructed teaching staff not to engage in epidemiological investigations.
In general, since the beginning of the current school year, and in contrast to what has been the case so far, the Ministry of Education does not publish data on morbidity in the education system.
The data on the numbers of sick and isolated students are obtained from the Ministry of Health, and are partial data, since they include all age groups from birth to 18, in contrast to data from the Ministry of Education, which refer only to system students and age groups.
