SYRIZA: An appeal to extend the school holidays for a few days

“We appeal not to turn our children into guinea pigs and schools into places where the disease is transmitted and the virus is spread to families and teachers,” said Nikos Filis, Head of Education at SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance.

In a statement, he denounced the government for “opening the schools on Monday, with only one additional self-test, allegedly invoking the international experience”, and stressed: a period when Greece holds the proportional black record in the world in the number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations in ICU ”.

The full statement follows:

“The government is opening the schools unsecured on Monday, with only one additional self test, allegedly invoking the international experience.

In other countries, vaccination is universal, while here it lags behind, especially in young children and not under the responsibility of their families.

In other countries the departments close with 1 or 2 cases. Here 50 + 1% is maintained, ie at least 12 children must be ill to close a department.

This measure was decided unilaterally by the government. It is a measure of political expediency and not of epidemiological responsibility.

In other countries free PCR tests are provided, here they are paid dearly.

In other countries, free masks of increased protection are distributed to students and teachers. Not here.

In other countries the number of students in each department did not increase, as was absurd here this year.

SYRIZA-PS. appeals to hear the opinion of many experts, but also the anguish of parents and teachers.

Do not open schools on Monday, for a few days, until the pandemic wave breaks out.

It is necessary the small extension of the holidays in order for the NSS to be able to breathe, in a period when Greece holds the proportional black record in the world in the number of cases, deaths and ICU patients.

We appeal. Do not turn our children into guinea pigs and schools into places where the disease is transmitted and the virus is spread to families and teachers.

Abolish the 50 + 1% that functions as a transmission mechanism of the coronary artery.

“Schools must operate safely and children must return to their natural environment soon.”

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Source From: Capital

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