Local councils: dozens of kindergartens will not be able to open due to the “new” requirement of the Ministry of Traffic

The heads of 150 cities and local councils warned the Ministry of Crossing that dozens of kindergartens for children from 3-4 years old would remain closed due to the need to have a teacher and two assistants in a group. The letter addressed to the Minister Yoav Kish, it is said that the new directive of the Ministry of Traffic “took off his responsibility.” The municipality of Tel Aviva warned that already on the next Sunday, kindergartens would not work.

In 2015, the Ministry of Education decided: in groups from 30 or more children 3-4 years old, there should be a teacher and two assistants. For many years, and then during the Coronavirus epidemic, the Ministry of Traffic stopped monitoring the implementation of this rule due to acute shortage of workers. Many kindergartens worked in the absence of a second assistant. Last week, the Teachers’ Trade Union announced the labor conflict in connection with the non -fulfillment of this rule, explaining this with a high load on educators.

Under the pressure of the trade union, the Ministry of Traffic promised that he would tighten control and prohibit opening a kindergarten in the absence of a second assistant to the teacher. In response, the heads of local councils warned: in case of an illness of the teacher, they will not be able to replace him with one of the assistants. “Instead of looking for a solution to the problem, the Ministry of Education lowers an instruction, as a result of which dozens of kindergartens will remain closed daily, which will damage parents and children. Closing one kindergarten means that 35 parents will not be able to go to work,” the saying Letter of the heads of local councils.