Flemish Minister of Education Ben Weyts (N-VA) emphasizes in a response to De Standaard that “each school itself is responsible for organizing the teaching times, as in pre-corona times”. But Catholic Education requires more clarity. “We certainly don’t want to make distance education compulsory, but we do want to give schools the opportunity to use it,” says Boeve.
Boeve is aware that not all students have the same options at home, such as a computer and help from parents. Therefore he does not want to know about an obligation. “But for schools that see an opportunity and have organized themselves, because they assumed it would become compulsory, it would still be good to make it possible for the third grade.”
“Het Journaal” paid a visit to the Sint-Andreas Lyceum in Bruges, which is strongly in favor of clarity. Watch the report here:
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