Tesler in the plenary: What the great men of Israel saw, everyone sees now. Irreversible damage!

November 17, 2020   

In a speech he gave in the Knesset plenum to mark 'Children's Rights Day', the chairman of the Public Inquiries Committee, MK Yaakov Tesler, addressed the state of education following the Corona period and said that there are already 140,000 dropouts from the education system. Suffering from underlying medical conditions? You may be entitled to a lot of money from National Insurance. ""A billion children in the world were absent from school during the Corona period. 30 million children in the world will not return to school. 140,000 will drop out of school because of Corona. And if we remember that for every official dropout, there are two hidden ones, the number is double and triple. "The right, and to the same extent the most basic duty in the world in general, and in the Jewish tradition in particular, is for education and guidance. This right must be preserved in all circumstances and cannot be violated. Unfortunately, under the auspices of Corona, we have deprived children of this most basic right. We have robbed children of their education and future. The crisis may leave behind a generation whose future has been seriously damaged. We have lost an entire generation." MK Tesler noted that according to a recent study, Pakistani children, who were unable to attend school for a period of only three months in 2005 following an earthquake, showed after four years, signs that they had lost a year and a half of education. "The consequences of three months are equal to the loss of a year and a half. It is easy to guess and there is no need to guess what the consequences of closing the education system for months and months will be." The welfare and education systems are already reporting a serious setback in all indicators, but this does not set off a warning sign for anyone. There is talk of opening the education systems in green and orange cities. The state of education is red! Bright red! The situation is crying out to the sky! "We are witnessing a silent cry of tens of thousands of children. The children are screaming and not heard. The children are crying and not heard. The children are sobbing and not heard. The children are begging for help and not heard. We have become deaf. We do not hear!" Instead of waking the children up for school in the morning, the parents are dealing with keeping the children away from cigarettes and alcohol. They do not get up in the morning, do not get dressed, they do not feel like doing anything. But no one hears." According to him, "What the distant eyes of the great men of Israel, may God bless them all, are already being seen today. The damage from the closure of the education system is irreversible. Today, in most countries of the world, even during periods of lockdown, the education systems continue to operate as usual. The principle is: Just as there are essential places that will not close under any circumstances, so educational institutions will not close!" He exclaimed: "The month of Kislev is the month of light, let's bring light into children. Let's unite to save the children who can still be saved, and invest resources and a rehabilitation plan to illuminate the darkness. Let's bring a little light into them that repels much of the darkness.".