"We have stopped updating the Ministry of Education on sick students and classes in isolation," Corona trustees in schools admit.
The reason: The waiting times for a telephone answering at the Ministry of Education's command and control center have been extended to hours, and in some cases the line is not available at all.
This means that the control center actually collapses, and can not provide a reliable snapshot of the morbidity situation.
The Ministry of Education's control center (UAV) currently employs only about 200 contact researchers who work seven days a week, but in the education system more than 7,000 corona patients are discovered every day and the contact researchers are unable to reach everyone. According to the Ministry of Education, they Only about 2,300 cases a day are interrogated, only a third of the actual cases.
There is no real picture of the disease.
Peace School in Mevaseret Zion, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"It has reached a point where I no longer call, because when they call there is no dial tone. They do not answer and do not return so I do not report to them at all.
She said, "I make the drawing for myself, but it does not come up so the data does not reflect reality, it is discouraging. The situation has simply become impossible, we are at war but fail to catch the Knesset receiving instructions."
The absurdity is that even though it is an advanced system, reporting to the UAV is done only by phone and not by other digital means. While the Ministry of Health uses chats and bots to investigate contacts, the Ministry of Education is just left behind. Included more than an hour and a half until clocks.
If after I finish the conversation with them another student is added to me - I have to call and wait again. "
She said, "My colleagues and I leave messages and do not get back to us. We have not been able to report those infected and isolated at school for a week."
She adds that "if there was an online report on the site or a reporting app, they would save a lot of time. We are in 2022, but the Ministry of Education is running like in the 1950s, it's really sad."
A source in the Ministry of Education admitted that "we are not at our peak yet. There are quite a few loads at the moment and it is going to be much worse."
The command and control center was established with the outbreak of the corona by Education Minister Yoav Galant and former Director General of the Ministry of Education Amit Edri. , The ministry stopped publishing the data, claiming that the person in charge of the disease was the Ministry of Health.
The Control Center of the Ministry of Education, Photo: Gideon Markovich
In recent days, in light of the chaos in the system, the Ministry of Education has returned to publishing data, but they are not reliable.
For example, according to the UAV, there are about 16 closed kindergartens, but in practice the number is much larger, in Tel Aviv alone there are 30 closed kindergartens, and in Jerusalem more than ten.
"The Ministry of Education has apparently given up on the UAV out of the perception that the person in charge of health is the Ministry of Health," says Amit Edri, former director general of the Ministry of Education.
According to him, this is a serious mistake: "This is part of what causes chaos in the education system, where the situation is unclear and does not reflect the real level of illness and the number of students in isolation."
"We see in the data from the Ministry of Health that the number of those verified in the education system is rising and the number of isolates remains stable, it does not make sense because there is a direct connection between the two."
The Ministry of Education responded: "The UAV will significantly increase the number of contact researchers to address the needs of school principals.
Thus, about 200 researchers were able to provide a solution today to 2,300 managers.
The UAV is making great efforts to provide a maximum response, depending on the resources available to it. "
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