One of the main demands made last night in the Corona Cabinet is to shut down the education system, which will prevent many parents from going to work. This demand boils down to the national parent leadership, which has already reacted sharply.
On the other hand, the secretary general of the Teachers’ Union, Yaffa Ben-David, clarified that it would not allow teaching workers to be endangered while many sectors were sitting.
“I will not allow teaching staff to take risks and come to work while the rest of the country is sitting at home and officials of the Ministry of Education are already today avoiding receiving an audience and sitting behind clear plastic panels,” she said. “Teaching staff will continue to support students and teach remotely, as they have done in previous closures with great success.”
Last night, the Ministry of Education published the numbers of those infected in the system. According to the data, out of about half a million kindergarten children, who constitute 5.6% of the population, 789 children were infected (2.8% of the patients in the general population). In primary schools, which make up about 12% of the population, about 10% of all patients became infected. Primary schoolers, who make up about 9% of the total population, contracted 10% of all patients.
The parents’ organization warned yesterday, even before the cabinet meeting, of a decision to close the education system. “The Corona Cabinet is smashing education and harming our children,” the parents claimed. “The naked truth is that education is not first and foremost, but is the first to pay the disgraceful abandonment of enforcement in Israel. Divisional and high school children have not yet smelled the school bench, and they are sent for no injustice to unnecessary closure, based on hysteria and lack of judgment.
“Winter matriculation is upon us, and the children have not been in schools for two weeks in a row since the beginning of the year. Data from the Ministry of Education prove that there is no justification for closing education in the yellow and green cities. Including kindergartens and elementary schools. On what basis?”
The National Kindergarten Committee also warned and sent a letter to the Prime Minister, stating: “It would not be conceivable to close the kindergartens again. The children will not be able to absorb another upheaval in another closure. “.