Teachers' Hard Time:
Principals make great efforts to keep schools open, but some 264,000 teaching staff and education staff take courses: some sick, some in isolation, and others forced to stay home to care for a sick family member.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education is proud that 90 percent of the students are not in isolation, but in practice the classrooms and corridors are empty.
Sick teaching staff
The number of sick teaching staff yesterday was about 14,000.
The acute shortage creates a host of problems, including not having enough staff to operate the frameworks.
According to Hila Shimoni Chen, principal of the Balfour School in Tel Aviv: "I and the other principals do not receive a double staff, so if a teacher is ill, there is no one to replace him. The teachers in Corona are so dedicated "Even though they have symptoms."
Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton: "We will do everything to ensure that students study maximum days physically in a school with a minimum of isolations" // Photo: Yaniv Zohar
When a teaching employee turns out to be blue he puts most of the students in solitary confinement, and the result is that the principal is left with fewer teachers on the one hand but with exempt students who need to be taught in the classroom, and more isolated students who need to be taught from home.
"Some students are entitled to come to school and study regularly and regularly, but their teacher is ill and there is no one to bring into the classroom," explains Shimoni, adding: "Those in the home should also be taken care of. She is very concerned about the mental aspect of the students sitting at home. "
More and more are staying to study at home.
Archive, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
The workers are not counted
The Ministry of Education counts the sick teaching staff and those in isolation, and publishes in the corona data.
But there is an unknown significant figure, which is not collected and is not published - kindergarten teachers and teachers whose family members have corona and are forced to stay at home to care for them due to their age or medical condition, or alternatively the children of the teaching staff in isolation.
These are thousands of kindergarten teachers, assistants and teachers.
For example, a teacher, if a single parent whose 5-year-old child is infected with corona, cannot leave him alone at home and therefore will be absent from work - but she is not recorded in the data because she is not ill or isolated.
Anat (pseudonym) is a kindergarten teacher in a municipal kindergarten in Gush Dan.
She is not sick or isolated, but for a few days did not come to work because her daughter was ill.
"I report absence from work but do not register blue or in isolation, and so do many of the kindergarten teachers I know who were in my situation. This week, due to my commitment, I asked my husband to stay home with the girl and I go to kindergarten because I know that if I do not come the kindergarten will close. "There is a sense of doom and a war of attrition of the teaching staff, some of whom are simply in a storm of emotions."
Kindergarten (illustration).
The Ministry of Education does not count the kindergarten teachers and caregivers, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Teaching staff in isolation
The teachers 'organizations fought to give the employees of the education system the first vaccination, and the chairman of the teachers' union, Ran Erez, even called for the vaccination of the fourth vaccine.
This means that there is a 20 percent, - that is, a significant number of about 50,000 unvaccinated teachers - seven exposure to a student or another staff member with corona, they need to go into seven days of isolation.
Yesterday, the number of teaching staff in isolation was 4,354.
"Our children pay the price of those who do not want to be vaccinated," says a mother from the Sharon area who helped with her daughter's kindergarten who was not vaccinated against Corona.
"This is the third time that the assistant has been sent to solitary confinement, and we are at a loss. On the one hand, they are not ready to remove her from her position, and on the other hand, they cannot provide a routine in the kindergarten."
Kindergarten teacher Dorit Hazan, chairwoman of the Association of Educational Kindergarten Teachers from the Histadrut, adds: "Unfortunately, there are not enough staff to open the kindergartens.
The number of kindergarten teachers and assistants who are in isolation or who have fallen ill in Corona is increasing day by day, and many kindergartens are closed because of this. "
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