Education Committee Chairman Threatens: "Troll, We Will Not Approve the Decision on Kindergartens""

December 24, 2020   

Third closure: The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Professor Hezi Levy, commented today (Thursday) on the decision to close kindergartens at 1:00 PM starting Sunday. Suffering from a medical problem? Feeling alone? • You can make money from the situation In an interview with Reshet B, he explained: "It was a compromise to reduce the risks. I understand that this is a difficult decision to understand, but when you impose a lockdown, you walk a fine line between needs." Defense Minister Benny Gantz wrote on Facebook today that "the decision to limit the hours of the education system is wrong." Gantz added that he is working to change the decision. The chairman of the Education Committee, MK Ram Shefa of Blue and White, threatened today that he does not intend to approve the decision regarding kindergartens in the committee: "I will not give a hand to the trolling of the education system. The government's decision regarding the functioning of the education system during the lockdown is illogical and devoid of connection to reality. Abandoning the children of the 10th-12th grade at home, after so many months of distance learning, and especially the unclear decision to open kindergartens only between 8:00 and 13:00, contradicts my position, logic, and the needs on the ground. "I do not intend to approve this decision in the Education Committee and I call on the government to make changes and adjustments as soon as possible. I have received thousands of inquiries in the last few hours from parents and students who are angry about the disconnect between them and the decision-makers, and I intend to do everything to make their voices heard and adapt the regulations to their needs. On Sunday morning, I will convene the Education Committee and I very much hope that by then the government will submit sensible regulations to us that we can approve." Health Minister Yuli Edelstein was asked in an interview with Galts whether he would consider changing the decision - and replied: "I see no reason. I see the health aspect of the matter here. We can make changes and stay with these restrictions for two months now." The Private Kindergarten Forum stated that this is a disconnected and unfounded decision that will cause educational harm to children and economic harm to kindergartens. Naamat chairwoman Hagit Par said: "This is a delusional decision - do ministers think the coronavirus is going to sleep at noon?" Parents who spoke to 'Kan News' spoke angrily about the decision. One parent said that "this is a delusional decision, my child is still sleeping in kindergarten at this hour." Another parent explained that "this is the first time I have not understood a government decision - it means that the grandmother will go and take the child out." The chairwoman of the Teachers' Union, Ran Erez, addressed Education Minister Yoav Galant, and argued about the risk to teachers following the decision to keep part of the education system open. "Kudos to you for 'fighting' for the education system, but it is very serious that in that same fervor you did not care about the teachers - whom you are sacrificing and sending to the front without any protection of a vaccine," Erez noted in his address. "You are condemning them to infection by gathering with students. We demand immediate vaccination inside schools.".