The Foundation For The Defense Of Citizens Against State Abuses (FACIAS) is sounding the alarm about the danger to which children are exposed, as schools in Romania have become real outbreaks of Covid, with an accelerated increase in the number of infected children.
FACIAS continues to call for the immediate resignation of the Minister of Education, Monica Anisie, as the alarming increase in the number of COVID -19 infections among schoolchildren once again demonstrates her inability to manage the current crisis, as the measures taken are ineffective.
While on the first day of October in Romania, more than 770 children infected with the new coronavirus were hospitalised, today the figures have doubled, with some 1339 new cases.
FACIAS also draws attention to the fact that the current situation in Romanian education is increasingly alarming and, unless urgent action is taken, the education system in Romania will collapse. The impact of the coronavirus crisis on the education system has revealed one of the major problems: the lack of access to digital education. Analysis of statistics from recent years shows that the number of children who do not have a computer at home continues to be significant.
FACIAS has repeatedly called for the resignation of Minister Anisie, summarising its arguments in the "Decalogue of Disasters in Education", a programme that points out a number of serious problems in the Romanian education system that the Ministry of Education cannot solve.
For example, the Romanian education system is currently not ready to support online-only courses, with all schools in the so-called red scenario. Even so far, the promised tablets for the 800,000 children across the country who do not have access to an internet-connected device have not been purchased and distributed.