It is already a big problem in the morning school groups. Under normal circumstances, the children would be in one group, now the students of the first and second classes must be divided into four groups so that the children from different classes do not meet.
Next week there will be more students from the first grade. Ensuring that the children in the party are separated by class is almost a utopia. “We would not have been able to do this without the help of teaching assistants. It is not possible to have children divided into groups by individual classes,” emphasizes Ludmila Břeňová, the leader of the group in Hradec Králové.
From next Monday, there will be primary school children, ninth graders and then half of the children from other classes in primary schools. However, they will take turns in weeks. It probably couldn’t be more complicated. School principals have a week to dig over existing schedules and provide a replacement program for physical education or music.
“We will be out a lot when we can, otherwise the teacher may teach one class, then go to the classroom, from which he will broadcast online,” explains Jiří Otčenášek, director of Pouchov Elementary School in Hradec Králové.
So far, secondary schools and vocational schools are in the greatest uncertainty. The directors have no idea when the children of non-graduation years will start going there. The Czech Republic is waiting for the third stage in the anti-epidemic PES system.
“Even though we are all trying our best, I don’t know how good it will be in distance learning, we don’t know how objective the testing is. We’ll see how it will be when he returns to school,” shrugs Zdeněk Zitko, director of SPŠ potravinářství and services in Pardubice.
Graduate classes have a different composition for almost every subject. Pupils choose seminars and are composed of students from several classes, and this is not conceivable in the current conditions. “We are not able to provide education for all high school graduates, because it is not even possible to arrange it in a schedule,” regrets Jaroslav Šťastný, director of the Jeronýmov Grammar School in Liberec.
According to the Ministry of Education, however, adherence to the same composition of classes is essential, even at the cost of not following the curriculum. “Distance teaching can take place there for subjects that involve pupils from more than one class. The condition of group homogeneity takes precedence,” says Aneta Lednová, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education.
The Pedagogical Chamber considers the current situation to be chaotic and unnecessary and has even prepared an alternative proposal. In it, he refuses to turn pupils according to classes. It is said that a gradual return of all children in individual stages would be better.
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