Not going back to class – yet: Last night, the government convened to discuss the easing, after the third closure came to an end on Sunday morning. The session, which lasted about four hours, yielded no results or news for parents expecting to return their children to educational settings. As you may recall, today (Monday) the government is expected to convene again to decide on the future of the education system.
ToMaariv It was learned that before the cabinet meeting, and after consultation with the Minister of Education Yoav Galant And the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu It was decided that the education system would not open tomorrow (Tuesday), for good. This, after it was indicated that the schools and kindergartens would reopen on the specified date. The possibility that the frameworks will return to activity only on Wednesday, if at all, is currently being examined. In consultation were present The Minister of Defense, the Minister of Health and the experts of the Ministry of Health and her interest was also the spread of the British mutation and its consequences. After the decision the consultations on the subject will continue.
Netanyahu at a school in Jerusalem (Photo: Mark Israel Salem)As you may recall, while the original planning of the government when leaving the quarantine was about a gradual opening of the economy starting yesterday – among the educational staffs in schools and kindergartens quite a few questions arise. “Again we are told to prepare to open the institutions but not to say when and how. We are held time and time again but the opening is not. From time to time the preparation on the ground is less felt and the lack of faith in the system grows,” said the director of education.
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Illustration school (Photo: Eden Degani)Also Secretary General of the Teachers’ Union, Beautiful cousin, Sharply criticized the outline: “It can not be implemented, in my opinion should not be opened now.” “We are in favor of opening up the education system, but in an informed way, outlining with us an outline that can both be worked with and be applicable, and not offer proposals that are detached from the field,” Ben-David said in an interview on 103FM