Parents in Deadlock: Ministry’s Last-Minute Online Learning Decision Causes Chaos

The parents of the young students found themselves in a deadlock because of the decision to study online from tomorrow. The order of the Ministry of Education and Culture was issued late on Friday, and most mothers had no opportunity to organize their holidays since the beginning of the week. Moreover, most did not even understand that after the official announcement from the Regional Headquarters in Plovdiv there was a change and instead of Tuesday, online training starts on Monday.

On the first day of work, employers are faced with an avalanche of applications for forced rest. The good thing is that this happens at the beginning of the year and employees have all their paid vacation.

First graders have no idea how online school will work. In the first days, there must be an adult next to them to include them in the virtual room, to tell them that recess is over and the class has started, or to remind them to turn off their microphones when the lady is not asking them a question. This whole organization cannot be entrusted to grandparents, since they themselves are unlikely to know how to raise a hand to participate in Classroom.

“I personally will have to use days of paid annual leave for the week in which the online training will take place. I have two children – in first and seventh grade. And while the father has already gone through this path, it will be a real test for the little one,” says the mother. In their household over the weekend, several options were played out as to where the two students and their electronic devices would be placed in the rooms.

“In our school, the learning process is organized differently for the elementary and junior high school courses. In the first grade, classes start 30 minutes later than usual, that is, at 9 o’clock. There is no change for the seventh grader, the start is at 8 o’clock. On the other hand, the lessons are 30 minutes each, and the breaks are 20 minutes each. The big break is equal to one lesson,” says the parent of two students. The breaks for both of them fall in different pockets, that is, the living room, where it is located, and the kitchenette must always be free if one of the students feels like something to eat.

2024-01-28 12:15:00


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