AOb wants unambiguousness from OMT about teaching groups
De AOb demands clarification from the OMT about the safety of students and teachers who teach exam candidates and other students in special groups before Monday, before groups of students are physically taught again. “There have to be other solutions,” says AObchairman Eugenie Stolk.
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The XNUMX meter measure in secondary schools should not have been abandoned. That said two members of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) last night in a broadcast of News hour. The idea that high school students play a limited role in corona transmission was "a mistake." The one-and-a-half meter measure was released for students in the summer on the advice of the OMT.
We like to teach. But it must be safe and responsible
“We would like to teach”, responds AObchairman Eugenie Stolk. “But it must be safe and responsible for students and staff. We were already very concerned about teaching large groups, but it was said that it was safe and that is now being questioned by members of the OMT itself. ”
Second lockdown
Large groups of students still go to school during this second lockdown. Practical education goes for example Just by, as does secondary special education. The 'practice-oriented' education in VMBO must also take place at school. Just like all lessons for exam students and the school exams for students in the pre-exam year.
Teaching large groups of students is no longer possible
If the OMT cannot come up with an unambiguous and convincing explanation of why this would still be safe before Monday, the AOb schools to opt for other solutions. “Teaching large groups of students is no longer possible,” says Stolk. "Schools must spread students over the building and classrooms so that there is sufficient distance, or online if there is no other option."
Hybrid education
Andreas Voss, professor of infection prevention and OMT member, said yesterday in Nieuwsuur: 'I personally think that at the time, especially in the older group of secondary school students, we should have thought about how they could have kept their distance. With hybrid education, for example, or education in small groups. ' Voss and his fellow OMT member Karóly Illy (pediatrician) think that keeping their distance from each other in secondary schools is important for education to continue.
The AOb on the obligation physical education for exam students - and other students in exception groups - let go.
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