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According to Jurgita Nemanienė, the head of Vilnius Jonas Basanavičius Progymnasium, which will open its doors next week, the parents of the students not only supported the idea, but also contributed to the faster return of the students by creating a collection system. of data.
Unanimous solution
The government has allowed pilot projects to be carried out in another 25 municipalities, returning children from primary school to schools. In order to ensure the safety of teachers and students in schools open to contact education, cumulative tests will be applied at home, where a maximum of five people will be sampled per sample.
Next week, three more schools in Vilnius are preparing for the return of primary school children to classes; Most of the students will return to the Vilnius Jonas Basanavičius Progymnasium. According to the school principal, Jurgita Nemanienė, the students’ parents enthusiastically supported the proposal to renew the contact education process.
“We received an offer from the municipality to be the second or third school to relive education. We made a call to the parent community, first of all parents of all classes, with this proposal, and we received a lot of support and, I thank, a lot of enthusiasm to stay engaged, mobilize and prepare for the return. to school in no time. “J.Nemanienė spoke on the” New Day “program.
According to her, the first challenge was deciding whether full classes would return or whether some students would continue learning at a distance.
“Because part-time learning and part-time learning would be very difficult for the teacher, and the forces of the school have limits, we decided to return almost the entire class, the maximum majority, without one or the other student, or the class still distance learning is maintained.
Therefore, out of 20 classes, 17 practically complete classes will begin on March 16, ”said the principal.
According to J. Nemanienė, in order to convince the parents of students of the usefulness of such an initiative, first of all, the school employees themselves must believe in this idea, who must know exactly how the educational process will be carried out and apply to parents with a vision.
According to the director, to make the feedback as smooth and fast as possible, the parent community helped not only by communicating with each other, but also by creating a unique test data system.
“Our school team has really come together, helping our school’s public health professional, which at one point, actually, 1,500. the members’ data would be systematized in packages, and those packages would be coded and sent to the Vilnius Health Office at the agreed time, ”said the school principal.
The principal said that the desire to go back to school was also expressed by older students: “I have already spoken about this issue several times, I expressed the position that we will be ready for the next stage, but how everything will depend on the general situation in Lithuania. , Vilnius, and “Of course, how we managed to get started in this first stage of the return of our beginners.”
How to avoid the Estonian setting?
Jurgita Sejonienė, a member of the Seimas Health Affairs Committee, stated on the news program that Lithuania had the situation that Estonia now has in mid-December.
“We see how long it took to manage the situation with very strict measures, very similar to those now being taken by Estonia and all countries, when it has a really intense spread,” said J. Sejonienė.
Considering what needs to be done to ensure that Lithuania does not repeat the fate of Estonia by opening schools and more and more companies, the Seimas member emphasized the importance of testing.
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has been saying since the spring of last year that testing is the most important tool for managing the situation.
That’s what needs to be done: intensive testing so that we can track all cases, even asymptomatic ones, so that we can isolate them effectively and that life can take place, ”said J. Sejonienė.
Dan Arlauskas, president of the Employers’ Confederation, said it was radical in terms of testing: it would introduce an algorithm, according to which everyone should be regularly evaluated without exception.
“If we leave it to volunteerism, it will be those chimneys and the time will come when we will have to close the stores again,” said D. Arlauskas.
“I call on the Seimas to be radical in this regard. We are at war and radical measures are needed in the war,” he added.
Rimas Varkulevičius, president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, said that the information on new cases (250 cases one day, and 500 the next day) depends on the tests.
“Therefore, we are also in favor of the widest possible tests, especially in places where there are a large number of possible infections and possible outbreaks,” said R. Varkulevičius.
Unique test method
Renewal of contact primary education is allowed in Akmenė district, Alytus city, Birštonas, Biržai district, Kaunas city, Kazlų Rūda, Klaipėda city, Klaipėda district, Kretinga district , Marijampolė, Mažeikiai district, Pakruojis district, Palanga city, Panevėžys district, Radungė district, Raseiniai district, Rietavas district, Šakiai district, Šalčininkai district, Šiauliai city, Širvintos district , Švenčionys district, Vilkaviškis district and municipalities of the Vilnius district.
According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, a total of 59 schools in the country have expressed their wish that primary school students return to classes on Tuesday night. Among them – seven Šakiai district institutions, five – Raseiniai district institutions, four – in Kaunas city, Panevėžys, Mažeikiai districts, Pakruojis districts, three – in Klaipėda city, Kretinga, Švenčionys districts, municipalities of Rietavas.
It is indicated that from 2021, February 22 to 2021 March 31 Primary education is carried out in a mixed way, with periodic pilot tests of primary school students and contact personnel for the diagnosis of COVID-19 (coronavirus infection ) and ensuring flow management, safety distance and other conditions necessary for public health, safety, hygiene. , provision of the necessary personal protective equipment.
In this case, the tests are carried out cumulatively, thus examining the entire family farm. In the case of pooled trials, samples will be collected from up to five people in a tube. If the group’s response is positive, the people whose samples were in the group are contacted and retested using the PCR test.
In preparation for opening three more schools in the capital for contact education as soon as possible, cumulative tests began on Thursday in the homes of their students and teachers.
At the time, Estonia, which introduced the strictest quarantine restrictions during the pandemic this week, acknowledged that, from an epidemiological point of view, the biggest mistake was getting children to reconnect with classroom teaching, which is believed to have led to increased morbidity.
Statistically estimated up to 36 percent. the cases were associated in one way or another with schools. Second, depending on where the virus spreads, the least dangerous and workplaces are museums and galleries.
