The Minister of Education revealed a new last-minute official decision that was taken for millions of students from schools all over Romania, the authorities deciding not only to start the distribution of 1 million medical masks in schools, but to ensure a regular flow of masks for protection of students.
The Minister of Education also says that a new batch of tests will arrive in schools before the resolution of the disputes for the 1st place, and separately he talks about the importance of testing, including in front of teachers, even in the classrooms in Romania.
"We distributed a first stock of masks, 1 million masks, I was assured by IGSU, and there is a good collaboration, that these masks will be received regularly, and will be available to students and preschoolers. Also, it would have been much better if we had had tests, but there are those objections that blocked the purchase process, but the good part is that batch 2 is being analyzed, and as the objections are resolved, those from batch 2 will come.
The testing last week went a little better, as proof that parents, teachers, students got used to it a little better. If in the first two weeks, out of 13 million tests, only 111 cases were confirmed by PCR, last week we had 1.5 million tests used, and 236 cases were confirmed, and there already seems to be a more responsible administration of these tests .
I am 100% on the same wavelength as Secretary of State Arafat, yes, that's right, there are countries where the testing is done in school, not by the teacher many times, it is self-administered by the student, really in front of the frame didactic, and the teaching staff does not intervene, but corrects the negative and positive students, so there is a minimum of control.
There are countries that do not distribute tests to students, Sweden for example made the decision to start school without testing, so international practices differ. It would be a much better control (n. ed. testing with the teachers) and I am convinced that the result would be different.
Testing cannot be mandatory, it cannot restrict the right to education, only if there is a law, not an emergency ordinance, government decision, ministerial order. There is no law that provides for mandatory testing, and in the conditions where the law does not exist, it cannot be mandatory, but that does not mean that the tests cannot be administered in the classroom."
