OELMEK President: The students must also take a test

The teachers "with all our love, with the measures that must be taken, we will welcome the children with the hope that Monday will be the beginning that will lead us to the end of the school year without having to close again or go to home education ", said the President of OELMEK Themis Polyviou, in his statements to KYPE.

Asked about the issue that arose with the rapid test, Mr. Polyviou said that according to the decree, it is the obligation of all employees, either in education or wherever they work, to take the test.

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"It simply came to our notice then. Colleagues have this responsibility. If they do not, I understand that the Ministry has instructed the directors on how to handle the whole matter. From what I have been informed, they will not be accepted at school unless they take the test. We insist that the tests should be done by children as well. The Minister said that the students are not employees, there is no such legal basis. Therefore, it is not required by law. It is imposed if you want by common sense says out of moral obligation. Well, when the relaxations in the sports venues were announced yesterday, by what logic was it announced that those who are 12 years old and over to be there must do the rapid test and in fact with groups of 5, not groups of 100 and 150 which are the students who will to return? », he added.

As he said, "we believe that this contradiction will create problems and we hope not to reach a point in two to three weeks to close the schools again because such a possibility will bring things far behind."

Asked if the schools are ready to receive the students, Mr. Polyviou said that the Principals have a week now to prepare.

"Schools, classrooms have been prepared. They have prepared the places where the children will take breaks, lists with the colleagues who will be on duty and where they will be on duty. The protocols with the masks will be strictly applied, with the distances, with the use of the antiseptic entering the classroom, then leaving the same again. That is, we will have all these measures again, but our concern is this issue with the rapid test in children since even the WHO clarifies that adolescents aged 16 to 18 years, unfortunately transmit the virus as easily as possible. "than the elderly, so you understand the climate that will exist in the schools and I believe that on Monday we will have problems, to see how we will deal with them", he added.

Answering a question on the subject of teaching, Mr. Polyviou said that in the Lyceum the program of the second four months is done normally. "So, the teaching will be done normally based on the curriculum of the second four months", he noted.

Asked if they will visit any schools, Mr. Polyviou said that the members of the OELMEK Secretariat on Monday "will be on alert, to see schools, to see problems that may exist and everything."

Asked when the children of the other levels are expected to return to the schools, Mr. Polyviou said that there are no indications.

"We understand that they are waiting to see how the situation will develop upon returning to the Lyceums and that is why we say that measures should be taken and the rapid test should be done so that the situation develops in such a way and allows the children of of other classes of the Lyceum and the Gymnasium to return ", he concluded.