One week of distance learning is just the beginning – there may be more breaks of this kind

“During the last quarantine, schools became convinced that this was a way of working for some time, but not all the time. We know that parents, teachers and students no longer have the enthusiasm for spring distance learning, people are tired, ”he explains.

However, according to A. Aldakauskas, it is still difficult to answer whether just one week of distance learning will be enough.

“It is difficult to answer because Covid’as the further, the more difficult it is to predict. As we can see from the recent data provided by schools, both the number of sick people and the number of isolated people is decreasing. The first signs show that this week it will have the effect we expected, ”he said.

“There will definitely be no universal distance learning in the spring,” emphasizes A. Aldakauskas.

Primary education, preschool, recalls A. Aldakauskas, will take place in the usual way next week, but students from 5th to 12th grade may have to study at a distance more often.

„Covid’ui With more fuss, distance learning can increase. Things like a two-week break can increase. Students in grades 5-12 may have to work remotely for a couple of weeks more often for the 14-day isolation period to pass, ”says a spokesperson for the Delfi-diena ministry.

According to him, it would also be useful for schools to introduce the color of traffic lights in municipalities. There are three possible scenarios of how education could take place in them.

“Nobody has questions about the schools in the green municipalities. The questions are almost non-existent when we have a quarantined municipality and a red school where there are many diseases. What to do when we have a yellow zone? In our opinion, decisions must be made in municipalities, taking into account the situation of a particular school ”, explains A. Aldakauskas.

According to A. Aldakauskas, in those schools that work in shifts, teachers must be paid additionally: “As the workload increases, teachers can receive bonuses of up to 30%, these are not matters regulated by the central government “.

He assures that the maturity exams will definitely take place next year, although it is not yet clear in what form: “Let’s learn, the exams will be. We are already beginning to think about how the exams might go. There are two extremes here: things would go normally if Covid’as calm down to zero or close to zero. To say that the exams are not necessary, you do not have to know what to achieve, some level of warfare. Apparently true in the middle. “

According to A. Aldakauskas, the schools have been managing quite well since September, the system is capable of dealing with as many diseases as it is now.

“At least two indications are that the schools are doing well enough. We could have had what we have today in mid-September. and even in those municipalities where the quarantine has been announced, there are schools where there are no diseases, ”says A. Aldakauskas.

“A couple of weeks ago, there was a rather complicated case in the municipality of Švenčionys, because the figures showed that 10 percent. students fallen of the teaching process, whether isolated or sick, and about 20 percent. pedagogical staff. Today, the situation is around 10 percent. both teachers and students. The system is capable of supporting such a number and readjusting the educational process ”, he says in the program“ Delfi diena ”.