While nearly 50 percent of education system students are exempt from isolation - vaccinated or recovering, and do not need to go into isolation in case of exposure to verification, many educational institutions still close their doors and send them to study zoom or stay home.
The reason is that the Ministry of Education and the local authorities are unable to find manpower to operate the frameworks and place the responsibility on each other.
"My son is at home even though he has recovered, which means he is exempt from isolation," says Amit Yitzhak Gershon, the mother of 4-year-old Elroy who is studying at a municipal kindergarten in Kfar Saba.
She said, "He came home yesterday after wearing the new white shirt I bought him in honor of Tu B'Shvat and crying that he wanted to go to kindergarten.
"It's just a disgrace, they promised the parents that whoever is exempt from isolation can come, and it hurts trust - there is no value to recovery or vaccination."
The Gershon family from Kfar Saba.
The boy was forced to stay home even though he recovered, Photo: No credit
A colleague says she was told that the kindergarten could be opened provided there was a minimum of five children.
Although there is no official directive from the Ministry of Education regarding the minimum number of students required to open the institutions, it is not the only one that has received such an answer.
Thus, even in Petah Tikva, parents were notified that the kindergarten would only be opened if at least ten students arrived - and after this number was not reached, students were also sent home and were forced to stay with them for no reason - even though their children were not sick or isolated.
According to Yitzhak Gershon, "The problem is that we are not ready to unite kindergartens. There is another kindergarten a short distance from us and it is closed because there are not enough children, so I suggested to the municipality to unite the two kindergartens. The municipality representative said it was a good idea. "The feeling is that we are not counting the parents, that we are not interested in anyone. We are being thrown from one to the other."
As reported in "Israel Today", the Ministry of Education provides data that does not correspond with reality, and according to Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton, about 90% of students can go to school.
This statement, which has no basis in the field, is also repeated by her office staff and the professional staff, who align themselves with it - even though they are well acquainted with the data.
At the same time, the minister's office is pointing the finger of blame at the local authorities, which are closing the schools.
Sigalot School in Beit Shemesh.
Only four students in the frontal class, and the rest zoom in at home, Photo: Dudu Greenspan
It should be noted that about 44% of the students are exempt from isolation (vaccinated or recovering) - this is about 1,072,133 students.
Divided by age groups, in high schools (10th-12th) 65% of students are exempt from isolation, in middle schools (7th-8th) there are 62% exemption from isolation and in primary schools there are about 39% exemption from isolation, while in kindergartens There are only 21% exemption from isolation.
Sarit Dorni from Beer Tuvia is the mother of the twins Noa and Lihi (ninth grade) and Harel (eighth grade).
Her three children are vaccinated and can go to school but it is mostly closed, and the children have been zoomed in because parents simply did not send their children to school, and no answer has been found to those who have arrived.
"The children are left to study at a compulsive zoom," she says.
"They were vaccinated as soon as they could be vaccinated, because they promised that those who were vaccinated would be exempt from isolation and could study in the classroom. They are outstanding students and already desperate for the zoom. If there was a closure I could understand and explain to them,
Dorny explains that she has no claim against the school administration, but to the higher ranks in the Ministry of Education: "Some parents do not send their children, and then the principals have no choice but to zoom in so that the whole class can study."
The Ministry of Education does not know how to provide data on the number of students who have moved to distance learning, but it is estimated that 400-250 thousand students remain at home every day, except for the sick and isolated.
The Kfar Saba municipality said that "in light of the shortage of manpower, it is not always possible to unite genes. This is a difficult time, and the efforts of the staff exceed all imagination."
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