Schools open their doors today … “Booze Al Dafa” departments

Faten Al-Hajj wrote in “Al-Akhbar”. Formal education classes will be held today, kindergarten and first and second cycle students will join coeducational education, and the beginning of the week of attendance amid concerns from principals and teachers for safety health, especially with the return of nine classes at once. The principals preferred to allocate a week for each episode, as the return from kindergarten was delayed, especially for kindergarten students.

Sources from the rectors said that the rector feels that he has been placed in “the cannonball”, since “the educational sessions should have been divided into batches, which would make the students get used to the procedures and know their roles and classes ”. In principle, kindergarten students must attend 4 hours and study one hour remotely instead. “However, principals have not yet received a clear, independent mechanism on timing, required curriculum and teaching method.”

While sources reported parents’ fear of sending their children in the first few episodes, due to the unprecedented rise in Coronavirus infections, they confirmed that the school year did not really “take off”, especially with the continued announcement of some. towns within the red areas.
The sources were amazed by the talk about “coexistence with the epidemic” and “herd immunity” and “our comparison with countries like France that closed everything and opened schools, while we do not have the minimum requirements for the operation of schools, since the aid material and material sent by international organizations does not operate the school funds “. Some of them have no electricity, no internet, no school books or office supplies ”.
The president of the Association for Basic Education, Hussein Jawad, pointed out that “the experience of the other classes says that the public school can achieve a safe return within the controls, although caution is still present, and the main articulation is that we do not want wasting the school year, especially since distance education is in its current state. In public schools, it is far from education, so teachers still need intensive training courses. “
Sources from the Ministry of Education clarified that “the ministry is lenient with the possibility of delaying the opening of kindergarten classes, especially the first kindergarten, for two or three days, especially in large schools, where the number of students is high “.

The municipality of Ghobeiry opposes
And because “the educational zone of Mount Lebanon did not responsibly take care of school readiness”, Maan al-Khalil, mayor of the municipality of Ghobairi, decided yesterday, based on article 74 of the Municipalities Law, to close two gardens childhood within the Ghobairy area due to its unavailability. He stressed that “most public schools lack sterilization equipment and tools, and what the ministry offers them is not adequate for the number of students in them.” Also, “most of the private schools have opened their doors only to comply with the enrollment and the first delivery, and they are aware that the regularity of classes in their interior without many obstacles, including the absence of many students.” He called on the Ministry of Education to postpone the opening of schools until after the availability of the Corona vaccine in late November or mid-December. He asked that the decision be made with parents “who are primarily responsible for the health of their children.”