prof. Dr. Müftüoğlu Suggests Taking the Semester Break Forward

With the recent increase in daily COVID-19 cases, many of us have become even more reluctant to enter crowded and closed environments. At the beginning of these environments, such as schools and classrooms, where a large number of people come together. educational institutions exists.

As such, whether schools will close as before and return to online education; more precisely, whether it is necessary or not has become one of the most debated issues at the moment. While some are in favor of closing the education units because they are worried about their health, some do not want the schools to be closed because they fear that the quality of education will decrease if they switch to online education. One of the people who evaluated the subject is a famous name. prof. Dr. Osman Muftuoglu it happened.

Pushing the semester break forward a week or two can be an effective solution to ‘breathe’

Müftüoğlu, who hit the increasing number of cases and the rate of spread of the virus with the Omicron variant; He addressed the Minister of National Education Mahmur Özer. a few weeks of semester break pull forward Müftüoğlu said that “There are worrying developments that show that schools – and therefore private teaching institutions – have almost become a kind of ‘virus nest’. It is certain that schoolchildren are more likely to encounter not only coronavirus, but also other winter viruses (flu, cold and similar viruses) than expected.” used the phrases.

“On the other hand, we are faced with an insidious and extremely difficult new variant, which has a much higher contagious power than ever before and therefore multiplies and multiplies the number of cases geometrically. That’s why ‘putting the upcoming semester break forward a week or two’ is at least temporarily, though ‘breath’ It can be considered as an effective solution for Müftüoğlu gave his advice as follows: “I think it would be beneficial for our new, hardworking and successful Minister of National Education, Mahmut Özer, who has been on the field since he took office, to re-evaluate this proposal” he continued.

On the other hand, Müftüoğlu; that schools should never be closed, and that in case of a general closure, schools should be closed. last places He added that he thought it should be.