Opening of pre-primary faculties on Friday sparks academics’ protests

All main and secondary faculties will reopen on Monday with the mandate of testing for coronavirus twice every week however nurseries, kindergartens and pre-primary faculties opened on Friday.

And this has sparked protests from public college pre-primary academics who argue that there’s not a single protecting measure in place upon return of those youngsters aged between 5 and 5 and a half.

These at main faculties, they be aware, are aged six and above.

The cupboard determined to reopen faculties as deliberate, with pupils, academics, and administrative workers returning on Monday with obligatory 48-hour detrimental assessments.

From then on, all pupils should bear obligatory testing twice every week, together with in main faculties the place testing was weekly.

The union of main college academics (POED) had referred to as on the Ministry of Training for academics and kids of pre-primary college to additionally return on Monday, January 10 – like everybody else.

POED head Haris Charalambous, in a submit on the web, referred to a “legal choice” and asking: “Do they ship them to get sick?”.