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The students of the 3rd Lyceum passed the threshold of their schools to confirm and sign the declaration of application for participation in the Panhellenic exams with several of them indicating their intention in the coming days of “staying home”. The abstention rate has dropped to 30%, but that number is expected to rise in the coming days.
Thousands of high school students and teachers who were called to return to school faced a new reality two months after the schools closed due to the coronation. The return to school coincided with the obligation of the candidates to go to the corresponding school unit to confirm and sign the declaration of request to participate in the national exams. Since the relevant deadline expires on the 14th of the month and the signing of the application is mandatory by the students, attendance remained at a relatively high level, however this is not expected to happen in the coming days.
Of course, it should be noted that the reduced attendance of students at this time is not surprising, since in recent years many candidates are taking advantage of the margin they have in absentia to study more intensively for exams, much less this year, due to a pandemic. They are given the opportunity, with a certificate signed by their parents or guardians, to stay home.
Antiseptics and thermometers.
The first bell rang with antiseptics placed in the classrooms and meticulously observed safety distances. In fact, thermometers were made at a school in Glyfada.
The Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos, visited the 46th General High School in Athens in the morning.
“All the protection measures are being observed, the rooms are clean, everyone has cooperated. Everyone has contributed to the gradual reopening of the schools,” said the Minister of Education and assured the students that everything will be fine and that the issue of The exams will be what was taught in the classroom.
The Federation of Secondary Education Officials (OLME) estimates that, on average, less than half of the students from the 3rd Lyceum arrived in classrooms in the first hours, a percentage that decreased significantly during the day. According to other estimates, the abstention rate has reached 30%.
The first image of the secondary education departments refers to a percentage of absentees of the order of 20-30%.
Older brother
The opening of the school rooms coincides with the legislative regulation of the Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos, for the video recording of teaching under the pretext of the extraordinary conditions of the pandemic and distance learning of the courses.
Citing the state of emergency, the minister endorsed the regulation and said the video would make it easier for students to watch the lesson live, allowing Big Brother to enter classrooms where teens are staying and developing. what this means for the student-class-teacher relationship, for personal data, for the very essence of teaching, for what happens in a classroom that cannot be a spectacle for anyone outside it.
The government’s legislative initiative has provoked strong reactions from teachers, and OLME speaks of an “unconstitutional and completely arbitrary amendment, unacceptable and sudden.”
The next step
Next Monday, May 18, schools will be open to 1st and 2nd Lyceum students and secondary schools.
Elementary and secondary school students have not yet decided what will happen, and the Ministry of Education says they will reopen “only if there is certainty that the course of the epidemic is going downhill.”
