Corona school year: 200,000 students didn't start the studies in schools and kindergartens

About 200,000 students did not start the school year in schools and kindergartens Wednesday, according to data from the Ministry of Education. The reasons for this are varied: either they are isolated, or infected in Corona, or they are in grades 8-12 in red localities with a vaccination rate of less than 70% in the first dose.
Of the students in the education system, 38.2 thousand are defined as active blue and 56 thousand are in isolation. In addition, 4,140 teachers and staff are sick or isolated. At this point it is still unknown what the results of the rapid tests the parents conducted for their children yesterday, on the eve of the start of the school year, as a PCR test is needed to verify positive answers for Corona. Students in red localities who were not allowed to attend schools due to low immunization rates in classrooms, studied by distance learning or in open spaces.

The rest of the isolated and verified students who did not come to the schools encountered a problem, as in most schools it is not possible to watch a live lesson in the class taught in the classroom. In addition, the Ministry of Education was unable to complete the preparation for distance learning until the start of the school year. Therefore, students did not have access to remote learning sites such as Horizon, Ten Fingers, Waves, Redheads and Swallow.
According to data from the Ministry of Health as of this morning, there has been a further increase in the number of sick students. As of yesterday, 4,925 students and 300 new verified staff members were reported. In the last week, there has been a 20% increase in the number of verified students.

2,458,000 students opened yesterday the new school year, after most of last year were forced to spend online and disruptively due to the Corona crisis. The Ministry of Education announced that no unusual incidents have been reported so far, except for an outbreak in Umm Batin in the Negev, where 27 students were diagnosed with the virus. 14 school principals refused to be tested but were willing.
"Finally returning to school," greeted Oren, who accompanied his son with me to the Gabrieli school in Tel Aviv. "We saw the movie on the tests on YouTube, it was not that complicated. We will not be tested every day, but it is not such a matter. We have done a lot of tests lately, for a movie, a pool, a dimension. It is not a story, much better than closing the school." .
He said, "Like in summer camps, here too there is isolation pressure, a text message that a verified patient will arrive. I was in isolation twice. We are not afraid of the disease, the children take it easily. Logistics is what is complicated. We want them to have a full year Past. " Itai added that he is "excited to see the friends." Jordan, who is in third grade, admitted that going back to school is "stressful and exciting, because it's something new and I'm not used to it yet."
176,000 children will take their first steps in school and begin learning in first grade. In the 2007/08 school year, there are 5,360 schools, an increase of 1,000 institutions compared to last year, along with 21,000 kindergartens. A total of 79,000 classrooms will open their doors this year, an increase of 19,000 compared to last year. The Ministry of Education's budget in 2022 is 67.1 One billion shekels.
240,000 students will still be forced to open the school year remotely, including about 150,000 students in eighth-twelfth grades in red authorities who study in classes with less than 70% exemption and vaccinated, and another 90,000 isolated. The final figure will be published on According to the director general of the Ministry of Education, Yigal Slovik, there are 4,516 classrooms in which there are less than 70% vaccinated.
4,213 teachers and staff are also in isolation. 9.9% of the tests conducted on Monday among students and teachers were found to be positive. 756,769 students received a first dose of the vaccine, and 580,311 are defined as vaccinated, a number that constitutes 24.2% of all students.
According to the director general of the Ministry of Education, 87% of the teaching staff are vaccinated for Corona, while about 18,000 teaching staff and 18,000 teaching supporters are not vaccinated and will be required to take tests to enter schools. If he arrives at the classroom without a green mark or a negative test, he commits a disciplinary offense, and the conduct may amount to an offense under the penal code. "
According to the final and complete outline published last night by the Ministry of Education, in localities defined by the Ministry of Health as green, yellow and orange - kindergartens, daycare centers, and grades 1-2 will hold full learning according to the regular hours system, all days of the week.
In Adumim localities - in kindergartens, in grades 1-4 and in the afternoons, learning will take place as usual, within the framework. In grades 5-7, learning will continue but while taking action to "reduce contacts" in orange and red localities. The intention is that schools will be able to decide to study in groups or in an open space or in another format.
In contrast, in eighth-twelfth grades in the red authorities, students will move to open-air or distance learning if the class has less than 70% isolation exemptions. Bennett decided last night that eighth-twelfth grade students who received the first vaccine dose would be considered vaccinated, only during the month of September, when they would then be required to complete the second vaccine dose in order to be considered vaccinated.
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton said last night that the ministry would not hesitate to change the opening outline in accordance with changes in morbidity indices. "We have a plan drawn up together with the Ministry of Health and accompanied by experts and professionals. We will not hesitate to change it and adapt it to the evolving reality," she said during a press conference in the special situation room set up at the Ministry of Education ahead of the opening.
"This year we will focus mainly on reducing the gaps following the last year and a half in literacy studies of grades one, two and three, preparing for the 11th-12th matriculation in which we announced that we will reduce the number of exams to five matriculation exams, and strengthening core studies in all grades. Age, "she continued.