Gardeners are afraid to get infected in Corona: “This is a battlefield”

The teachers’ union said that since the beginning of September, hundreds of kindergarten teachers and assistants have been infected in Corona: “Currently, 850 kindergartens are due to an isolation obligation due to the presence of verified kindergarten teachers or children.”

According to Dadon, beyond the health damage – it means the intermittent shutdown of thousands of children who are sent to solitary confinement, and parents who are forced to stay with their children at home or are themselves committed to solitary confinement.

To these data, she added: “Kindergarten teachers in Israel carry the Israeli economy on their shoulders. The further opening of kindergartens in full is the abandonment of kindergarten teachers and children. Kindergartens opened without capsules are loaded with 35 tiny students, within a space of 60 square meters at best, with one teacher and assistant One.

“As everyone knows, young children need help from nasal dessert to personal cleaning in the bathroom, and all this the teacher is asked to do while keeping a distance of two meters from the children. We will not approach the children, we will not hug them and help them. “

Dadon added that “children are still not very aware of hygiene at this age. Implementing guidelines that are not applicable. Kindergarten teachers are frightened and frightened by the situation, many of whom are in a difficult mental state, and even depressed due to these anxieties.”

She turned to the Ministry of Health and called on him to “recover and stop abandoning horticulture.” In addition, she was outraged at placing kindergarteners and teachers a secondary priority when it comes to vaccines.

“We see that airport workers, undertakers, police and others have been given priority for vaccinations – and kindergarteners and teachers are being abandoned,” she said. “Kindergartens are crowded and crowded. The kindergarten teachers are sent to the battlefield every morning, exposed to infections.”

According to the gardeners, the situation is even worse now, during the morbid winter days. Some of them say that parents send their children to the school day even when they are sick – “they sign certificates that the child is healthy,” they said.

Shosh Levy, a teacher from Rishon Lezion, contracted corona from one of the girls studying in the kindergarten. She told Ynet about the moments of anxiety and the fear that she would not recover from the disease. She said she called her children in for a conversation and prepared them for the possibility that she would not survive.

“When we found out that one of the girls in kindergarten was infected with Corona from her mother, we were all sent to isolation. My test showed that another girl in kindergarten was positive for Corona for the virus. I was sure it was my end and that I would not get out of it,” Levy said.

“I suffered from severe pain all over my body, feverish chills, terrible weakness and could not function. My condition was so difficult,” the teacher said. “I am after open heart surgery and I have blood pressure problems. I was sure it was. I was scared. I called the children and told them I was “I will not survive it. Now I am recovering and it is a Hanukkah miracle.”

Levy added that although it was clear to her that she would continue to reach the kindergarten she loved despite the risk, “Returning the kindergartens in this way is irresponsible and scandalous. We have 31 children in the kindergarten in one room, one rectangle. There is no chance that a distance of two meters can be maintained. And if a child needs us – we will turn to him and help.

“I do everything with love, but it does not make sense, such a large amount of children in the shadow of the corona. Must at least be divided into capsules in half. It’s all a matter of money and therefore not willing to budget and it is at the expense of health and life of kindergarteners and teachers.”

Tel Aviv Deputy Mayor and Early Childhood Commissioner Tzipi Brand said: “The government should invest in vaccines and not in closures. The disease in the education system comes from the adult staff, not the children. Therefore, anyone who comes in contact with the children should be vaccinated immediately: teacher, assistant or cleaner , With priority for those aged 40 and over.

“The education system is an anchor of stability for children and must not be paralyzed, a necessary anchor and the government must not continue to experiment with it,” Brand added. “In the Tel Aviv municipality we have opened a huge vaccination center in Rabin Square and we are ready to vaccinate quickly. Unfortunately the Ministry of Health is delaying us.”