Half a million kids up to 4th grade return to School - It's an alarming chance

After a little over a month and a half at home, about half a million first- and fourth-year students will return to schools this morning (Sunday) - and will join the half-million kindergarten children who have been in the frameworks for the past two weeks. The young students will arrive this morning in classes in groups of 20, and will be required to wear masks throughout the school day and throughout breaks.
Returning to schools after a week of uncertainty and publishing changing outlines is accompanied by mixed feelings on the part of parents and teachers: on the one hand the desire to return to routine - and on the other the obligation to wear a mask and group mixes in afternoons that raised fears of many students.
In recent days, school principals have run a race against the clock to recruit the required manpower, prepare a customized hours system and locate suitable spaces for dividing students into groups of up to 20 children.
In such a situation, the weak authorities are left behind and claim that the economic resources, as well as the shaky infrastructure, do not allow them to stick to the plan of the strong authorities. Arab society is very concerned that the opening of schools will increase the level of morbidity in their localities, and has sent all education staff to perform tests. Even for students it is not going to be easy, while first graders will be required to study with masks. Which will be a challenge that parents and teachers will have to deal with.
Beyond that, even if during the day the school principals can keep the capsules from mixing during breaks, in the afternoons the groups are expected to mix. Tiberias already admits that learning is not going to be perfect, and the teams will mainly engage in leisure activities, assuming that what is important now is the social gathering and the cessation of learning with the help of the zoom.
In Petah Tikva, parents were informed that their children are expected to study four days a week - two hours every day. The parents shouted and contacted every possible factor in the city to have it fixed. Anat Madioni, a mother of three children in fourth, sixth and seventh grades, told how they were informed of the news last Thursday, and only after they caused a stir did they increase their school hours.
Murad Amash, head of the Jisr a-Zarqa council, said the opening of the school year in his council was going to be difficult, and warned that he was short of resources. Amash mentions the residents' fear of sending the children to school in light of the increase in morbidity in Arab society, and also the fact that most of the teachers come from red localities - a detail that frightens the head of the council, who fears an increase in morbidity.
"We are organizing on our own to open without any assistance from the state. We have asked school principals, teachers, psychological services and social services, to mobilize to open first to fourth grades but it is going to be difficult because we are missing a lot of things, there is danger and the residents themselves are difficult Send the children especially if the plague still exists, "Amash added. "We have four primary schools. It is impossible to make these capsules. We will also use community centers and other places so that there is no overcrowding. We want our children to go back to school, but in this reality, it's a real gamble. "
Itai Kantor, principal of the Bells Elementary School in Raanana, admits that the outline of the Ministry of Education is not perfect, but the better it is mediated to parents and teachers, the better the process will be. "I think this is a very challenging and complex period, the challenges come from everywhere, from the teachers, the staff, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health," Cantor said.
"The layout is not ideal, but it is without a doubt a layout that can be worked with. Obviously there are more challenges, if last time we could work with ten capsules, now each teacher can work with only three. It is a big challenge, the issue of masks in first and second grades is "Challenge, these are young children who have not been required to wear masks before, so we'll see how it works," he concluded. "We've been so experienced since last March, we're so into this thing. It's our mission, it's really the order of the day, there will always be something to complain about, the whole country is in crisis, and I at my mothers' door will do my best to be the best, I truly believe "