The need to take measures to dilute the departments and change the protocol of 50% + 1 due to the intense spread of cases in schools, underlined during the meeting with the presidency of the Teachers’ Federation of Greece the president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsi as part of its initiative to meet with stakeholders to take measures to stem the pandemic.
“We are proposing that, in addition to being open, our schools be safe,” Tsipras said, expressing concern that “a large part of the spread of the virus based on official data comes from students.” , as 25% of cases concern children. He said that according to official data, in November alone we had 45,000 cases of students.
As he said, although the majority of children are not seriously ill or asymptomatic, this situation carries very serious risks for the spread in the community, because “children who are carriers of the virus come home with contact with grandparents.” .
Given that “we all want the schools to remain open and safe”, as noted by Al. Tsipras, the proposal submitted by SYRIZA-PS provides for the closure of a department in the first case for only 3 days and the mandatory resumption of classes after 3 days, after first all students have undergone a free molecular test “to stop the chain of transmissibility “.
At the same time, he characterized as “unacceptable” the fact that the number of students per department is increasing. “It is inconceivable in the heart of the pandemic crisis that instead of diluting the departments, merging them, as they did last year,” he said, attributing the government’s choice to “fiscal reasons, lest teachers or substitute teachers be hired to work with fewer students.” sections “, while he reminded that during the SYRIZA government” in a period when there was no pandemic we reduced the students per class for pedagogical reasons “.
In closing, Mr. Tsipras made special reference to the Cisco case, noting that “no other EU country could be the Minister of Education if the Independent Personal Data Authority confirmed the concerns that the personal data of all children and their families “The previous two years of distance learning were used illegally by a company, Cisco.” He emphasized that the decision was not a signal of a formal antitrust inquiry into the United States, but said that it was “illegal” for the United States. In this context, he spoke of “a matter of both moral order and substance”, after the law was violated and added that “this can not pass without answers”.
For his part, Thanassis Kikinis, president of the IOC, began by referring to the “huge building problem that exists in schools” and which emerged with the pandemic. As he pointed out, after the first wave of the pandemic, the scientists agreed that the schools should be opened with 15 students per department and with specific rules of distances, something that should be a “guide” for the continuation.
Mr. Kikinis underlined that “no attempt was made to find places in cooperation with the municipalities or in general with the public sector, where alternatively and for a short time school departments could be hosted in order to achieve the smallest number of students per department”, while he also pointed out the increase in the number of students after the relevant law.
“It was really painful. “And at the moment we are unfortunately confirming when we said at the beginning of the year that we will have a large number of cases in schools”, stressed the president of the ILO, while adding that “another view of the problem that appears these days is that 50 % + 1 of teachers in many schools “.
“Instructions are given for the movement of teachers from other school units in order to fill the gaps. That is, to move teachers from units that do not have a big problem with the coronavirus to another school where there is one “, he added and commented that” now we are literally with our backs to the wall, so we come to discuss again how they will close and how much the schools will be closed, while the request would be to keep the schools open with conditions of hygiene and safety “.
Mr. Kikinis also referred to the issue of e-learning based on the decision of the Personal Data Protection Authority and attributed to the government that it does not follow the “instructions” given by the Authority and is not “willing to proceed with adaptation. […] on the contrary, he threatened that after us he would take the Authority to the courts “.
Finally, on the issue of evaluation, he expressed the view that “long before we discuss individual evaluation, we see that schools are entering the constellation of another type of function”, especially if one combines it with the legislation we had in the last law of the summer and that now allow schools to seek resources outside of central funding, we all imagine where this story will go. Such a perception “is not in line with the prospect of improving the educational outcome,” he concluded.
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