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There has been great concern in the Ministry of Education for the numerous squats that are taking place across the country.
The ministry assures that it is talking with open schools, while today it gave and gave clarifications about distance education and absences.
Specifically, it was announced that by decision of the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos and the Deputy Minister Sofia Zacharaki, they are provided:
- In the event of an emergency or unforeseen, which makes it impossible or especially difficult for the educational process to take place in a department or in an entire school unit, schools are obliged to provide modern distance education, compulsory for both
- teachers and students.
Students who obstruct the educational process cannot participate in modern distance education and receive absences for as many hours of instruction as the day’s schedule allows. - The absence of a student in each lesson hour of modern distance education is registered by the teacher, counted in the general total of absences and taken into account for the characterization of the student.
- Every teacher is obliged to properly record the titles of the unit he taught on a daily basis.
For distance learning
The Deputy Government Spokesperson, Aristotle Peloni, provided clarification on student access to e-learning.
As he said:
- We have updated the digital systems of the Ministry of Education for the implementation of e-learning.
- We have ensured the free use of a distance education platform, which is already connected to the Panhellenic Schools Network since the beginning of the school year.
- We have provided free data for the use of platforms used by the Ministry of Education for distance education.
- We have beefed up schools with over 20,000 handheld devices that are already available, by the principal’s decision, to those in need. Another approximately 50,000 devices are expected through NSRF.
- It is possible to connect to the e-learning platform even by phone, with a simple phone call with local charge.
The number of occupied schools is decreasing
The schools that are occupied in the country are decreasing, according to sources from APE-MPE, while according to circles of the Ministry of Education in most of them modern distance education is expected to work next Monday.
In particular, according to APE-MPE sources, in the Peripheral Unit of Piraeus (including Kythira and the islands of the Saronic Gulf) the schools that remained under occupation today were 56, registering a slight decrease compared to the previous days.
There is a rapid decline in the number of squatters in the Peloponnese region, where of the 51 schools that were occupied yesterday, 29 were closed today, with trends, however, as indicated by the sources, to end the occupation in most of them.
Squat reduction percentage in Epirus is also high, a reduction of approximately 30%. More specifically, according to APE-MPE sources, 12 schools were occupied today (at 5 o’clock it ended at noon) in the Artá Region, others 12 in the Ioannina Region (in 9 of them modern distance education was operational as of today), 5 in the Preveza region and 4 in Thesprotia. Also in central Greece the tendency to eliminate the squatters is confirmed, since 19 of the 39 schools that were under occupation yesterday continued today. Is about 14 in Evia, 3 in Viotia and 2 in Fthiotida. In East Macedonia and Thrace, there was no occupation today.
So far the data for the Attica region has not been released, but what the Ministry of Education circles highlight is that the number of squatters in this case is decreasing.
According to the same sources, in most of the schools that are still occupied, modern distance education has been organized and will start operating on Monday. In some schools, however, the process has progressed faster and online lessons have already started.
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