Kasiulevičius supports teachers’ request: it would be more convenient to switch to distance learning only for at least 6 weeks

Andrius Navickas, president of the Lithuanian Education Workers’ Union, says that the situation in educational institutions is deteriorating rapidly. Almost 2,000 teachers and other educational personnel have already hired Covid-19. As our country does not have the resources to evaluate all students and teachers once a week, the most appropriate thing would be to switch to distance education only for at least 6 weeks until the situation stabilizes. Therefore, both the outgoing government and the new government must take into account the calls of the teachers, “wrote V. Kasiulevičius on Facebook.

According to the BNS, the Lithuanian Union of Educators approached the appointed Prime Minister Ingrid Šimonytė asking “to reassess the situation regarding the future work of educational institutions and to consider the possibility of working remotely alone.”

According to the union’s appeal, with the rapid spread of the virus, “the situation becomes especially unfavorable in preschool, preschool and primary education institutions, because they are the ones who work in contact form.” Older students have switched to distance learning since the beginning of November.

“According to the Government Resolution of November 4, kindergartens and primary schools function in contact form. But after more than three weeks, the situation is deteriorating catastrophically: the number of infections in educational institutions is increasing rapidly, and both students and teachers are falling ill. Therefore, the question arises whether it is worth risking the health of students and teachers and continuing to work live, ”says Andrius Navickas, president of the Lithuanian Union of Education Workers.

Aivaras Dočkus, an English teacher at the Elektrėnai “Ąžuolynas” progymnasium, who has just come down with Covid-19, says the quarantine should be a quarantine, not a parody.

We have information that municipal education departments are putting a lot of pressure on the administrations of educational institutions to continue teaching directly and demanding that they return to schools as soon as possible. Perhaps the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports give such instructions to the municipalities? ”- the professor is quoted in the report.

The National Center for Public Health (NVSC) announced last week that more than 4.4 thousand people have registered with the country’s education and training institutions since the beginning of September. coronavirus cases.

NVSC representative Daiva Razmuvienė later claimed that the majority of those infected were in schools and kindergartens, out of 3.7 thousand. cases in educational institutions 55 percent. composed of students, the rest, 45 percent. – employees of educational institutions. The number of infected people in higher education has exceeded 600 since September.

With the introduction of quarantine in the country on November 7, education, with the exception of preschool and primary education, is carried out remotely or mixed. The quarantine currently runs until December 17 inclusive.