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“Two children are doctors and from the same family, and the family of the third child must work and cannot be at home,” said Rimantas Remeika, director of Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium.
Although the school has computers, the children brought their own and in a classroom supervised by a teacher that connects to remote lessons in their classes.
“He works with his class and does not interfere with each other, he has headphones and it works,” said the school principal.
A group of different classes, depending on the municipality, can have up to 10 children and are not necessarily supervised by teachers.
“Supervision is also carried out by other specialists, such as full-time school specialists, librarians, teacher assistants, as teachers teach lessons remotely,” explained Alina Kovalevskaja, representative of the Vilnius municipality.
Hot food is provided to children who come to school, but in Vilnius at least 400 are promised, and parents bring half, almost 200 primary school children.
“There are municipalities where there is no need or municipalities where the need is low. For example, ten children in the entire municipality. It is probable that according to our preliminary estimates, there should be approximately 600-700 children in all municipalities, ”said Jolanta Navickait representative, representative of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports.
According to a ministry spokeswoman, most of the children came from the major cities where most of the doctors work.
However, professors have headaches not only for their beginners, but also for their graduates. It is not known when they will return to schools and preparing for exams remotely is not the same as in the classroom. For this reason, the Union of Education Workers proposes to waive the maturity exams.
“Look at the annual grades of students and what is the practice abroad in foreign universities. That alternative should probably be considered and discussed with both graduates and their parents, ”commented Andrius Navickas, president of the Union of Education Workers.
Jolanta Navickaitė, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, said that in the spring it was decided that such an assessment of graduates’ knowledge had more disadvantages than advantages and was therefore not acceptable to Lithuania.
“We will consider the oral test of the Lithuanian language this year, perhaps a decision will be made to abandon it. And the content of the examination in its own structure will probably not change as indicated in the examination programs. They can be replaced only two years before the maturity tests “.
At the moment, there are no plans to change the exam schedule, and already in April, during the students’ holidays, oral language tests for foreign languages are planned.
“These parts of the exam can, of course, be done remotely, if sometimes we see that the epidemic situation does not improve. Then there are several options: slightly delay some exams or move to June,” a ministry spokeswoman said.
For their part, educators said postponing exams to June is not the best solution because, as last year demonstrated, the heat is annoying and students are tired from a long school year. Decisions about the exams, according to the ministry, can be made until March.
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