The Private Kindergarten Forum addressed the Corona Cabinet this morning (Thursday) demanding to open the kindergartens from birth to 3 from seven in the morning until the afternoon as the kindergartens are active today, and contrary to last night’s decision that during the closure the education system will only operate until 13:00.
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“The decision to open the kindergartens only from 8:00 to 13:00 is a detached and unfounded decision that will cause educational damage to children and economic damage to kindergartens that are struggling to survive due to the recent closures and working parents who will barely be able to work a quarter of an hour. 13:00! The children are in the same capsule with the same teacher and the same group of children anyway. These are children who are not scattered for lunch! The decision will cause significant developmental, psychological and educational damage to the children! This is a real “displacement” of the children at a very sensitive time, just before lunch and sleep! Violating their agenda at such an early age and taking them out of kindergarten in the middle of the day for roads and traffic jams does not make sense! “, The appeal read.
It is also written that “opening at 8:00 only will cause parents to crowd in the entrance to the kindergarten. This is in contrast to the current situation where parents can disperse the children in kindergartens between 7: 00-8: 00 and thus parents arrive at kindergartens at reasonable intervals and without crowding. Parents will ask for their money. The relationship is back. This means that kindergartens will collapse financially because they will not be able to meet the many current expenses (property taxes, rent, electricity, equipment, etc.). The gardeners and assistants will not be willing to work for half a day! That it is doubtful whether they will be able to recover from it after the closure. “A situation may arise where after the closure many kindergartens will close, parents’ payments will go up and the parents, many of whom have lost their livelihoods anyway, will simply prefer to leave the children at home and not go to work.”
Meanwhile, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein was asked in an interview with the GLC whether he would consider changing the decision, and replied: “I see no reason. I see here the health aspect of the matter. You can make changes and stay with those restrictions for two months now. “