The mental damage versus the risk in the face of the rising morbidity: the battle for child isolation is coming to court

The Labor Court will hear the teachers' union's intention to suspend classes following the government's decision to exempt students from isolation.

On one side of the barricade will be the Minister of Education, who claims that the decision will prevent mental damage from students, and on the other side will stand Ben-David, backed by the Ministry of Health who wants to postpone the move for a week

Meirav Cohen and Shani Frumkin

27/01/2022

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 12:18 Updated: 12:38

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In the video: Bennett and the ministers presented the "Testing and Learning" program (Photo: GPO)

The Labor Court will hear today (Thursday) the intention of the chairman of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, to suspend schooling following the government's decision to order the abolition of child isolation and apply a test plan instead, after the court issued a restraining order tonight The

battle

over education and child isolation is one of the main controversies regarding risk management in the fifth wave. So what does each of the parties claim? Walla! Makes an order before the court rules.

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Will studies be suspended?

Students return to school after the third closure (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Minister of Education: "Every child who comes to school is a child we save"

The Minister of Education claims that a proper study routine for the children is a balanced decision, which allows for life alongside the corona plague and prevents mental damage from students without an orderly framework. "Most experts agree on the enormous damage done to children, even at this time, after two complex years," Shasha Bitton wrote last night. "Eliminating isolations for healthy children is our duty to their mental and physical health and they will make it easier for parents who have been affected by these isolations."

Following Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's decision that student isolation would be stopped, Shasha Bitton wrote that "it was easiest to close the education system, but our duty is to save every boy and girl who has experienced two complex years, and their social and emotional distress we experience more in the system - violence, distress "Social and emotional disorders, eating disorders and mental disorders."

According to her, despite the morbidity situation, the proper response for the students is to maintain stability and routine: “Every child who comes to school is a child we save.No less than that, "she wrote.

Ministry of Health

On the other hand, the Ministry of Health sought to postpone the start of the outline for a week to ten days, in the hope that by then the morbidity would decrease significantly, and the risk would decrease.

In internal discussions, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, explained that he was mainly concerned about the growing workload in hospitals, noting that PIMPS syndrome was less of a concern for him.

Prof. Tzachi Grossman, chairman of the Pediatricians Association who supported the outline last week Because stopping student isolation would endanger children and adults at this point, of the fifth wave peak.

"Epidemic management is a matter of calculating risks, where there is a matter of timing. The outline is correct, but it is not time to take risks like that," Grossman argues.

We thought that at this stage the morbidity would be lower, but this is not the case and therefore the move should be postponed for a week.

"The epidemic must always have a hand on the pulse, and what was true a week ago is not true at the moment."

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