School can close faster, as long as the lessons continue

For example, the cabinet hopes to provide the schools with the space to weather the corona crisis for the time being.

Education ministers Ingrid van Engelshoven and Arie Slob spent hours on Friday with school boards, unions and other representatives of education about the Cabinet’s measures to stop the corona virus. Ministers do not want to close primary and secondary schools for the time being, although there is an increasing vote in education to do so.

Alternative to training

“If it really doesn’t work, you have to come up with an alternative for school education,” says Paul Rosenmöller on behalf of the school boards of secondary education. “Whether the school itself is closed is no longer the relevant question,” says Petra van Haren on behalf of the school leaders of primary and secondary education. “If that’s best, a school will close. But the most important thing is that students continue to receive education. ‘

Prevent children from not being taught

The cabinet will not ask ‘the impossible’ for schools, Slob repeats. But he wants to prevent children from being taught as much as possible. And if children do not go to school, their parents, who sometimes do important work in hospitals, for example, may also be unable to go to work.

More than 30 percent of students in secondary and primary education are already sick at home, according to schools, according to Van Haren. But 99 percent of the schools are still open, she says. The educational organizations will continue to consult with the ministry in the coming days.

Eighth groupers and exam students

Extra attention is given to eighth-graders and graduate students. If schools have to choose, they will be given priority so that they can finish their school time well.

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