Face-to-face Education Statement from the Minister of National Education

One of the most important names on the agenda these days when the number of cases is exploding due to the Omicron variant. Mahmut Özer, Minister of National Education‘he said. Because, while parents and students wanted to switch to distance education, the Ministry of National Education did not look forward to it. as of yesterday The new era started face-to-face.

Today, a new statement came from Mahmut Özer. Making evaluations on the agenda in Konya, Özer once again said: face-to-face education made the emphasis. Expressing that the reflection of the Omicron variant on schools is very low, Minister Özer said that the determination in the first term will continue in the second term. will continue stated.

“The rate of closed classes is below 1 percent”

In the statements made by the Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer, 850 thousand classrooms only 50 of them It was stated that face-to-face training was suspended. Minister Özer said that the rate of closed classes is not even 1%. in out-of-school settings also noted the precautions. Mahmut Özer spoke as follows in Konya:

“The education system with approximately 850 thousand classrooms. As of today, only 50 of 850 thousand classrooms have suspended face-to-face education due to incidents or close contact. As of now, although the prevalence of the Omicron variant is very high, its reflection on our schools extremely low. The rate of closed classes is well below 1 percent. Hopefully, we will continue our schools face-to-face education by paying attention to mask, distance and cleaning rules. The health of our children is very important to us. These measures are very important. to these measures in out-of-school settings It is also very important to comply. Because all socialization spaces in society affect each other. Naturally, it also affects schools. Therefore, our request from our parents and our society is to keep schools open to face-to-face education. compliance with health rules. Hopefully, this process will continue as it did in the first period.”