After the Passover holiday (end of April 2019) the students of the Haifa high school are supposed to move to the new school building on Hana Sanesh Street in Ramat Hadar. The parents' committee at the school is concerned that the school will not be ready in time.
Holds the education portfolio and is a member of the Haifa City Council, Sigal Tsioni, Lahi Foah promised today that the professional teams and she will accompany the works at the new Hogi school on Hana Sanesh Street and the students will move into the building only when it meets all the standards:
"The professional teams take care of all the issues related to the transition and accompany the process with informed thinking about every detail and answer to all needs and I come to the site to see the progress. I had a meeting with the parents and I accompany the process."
Chairman of the parents' committee at the six-year school Ilana Dihno says that at the moment there does not seem to be a possibility that the new school on Hana Sanesh Street will be ready to accept the students after the Passover holiday as planned:
"There are several things that are critical for us. The first thing is the safety of the students. Right now the school looks like a construction site. In order for the students to be able to attend school in a month and a half, we need to be convinced that it is safe to send them to school.
Another important condition is The ways of arrival to school and update the bus lines, to bring the students to school. Today the classes school is located in the center of Carmel. There are students who come from the neighborhoods of Carmelia and as much as walk. of course, They will no longer be able to reach the new school on foot and we need to take care of suitable bus routes for such a large number of students both on their way to school in the morning and on their way back. This is a complex problem, because there are close to 20 students who will study at the school and come from the Naot Peres neighborhood on the southern slopes of the city. Today there is no bus from there to the new school. In order to move the school, we as the parent committee need to make sure that each of our students can get to school independently. These are children in middle school and high school, and it is already an age when the parents do not drive, but travel independently by public transportation and you need to take care of suitable bus routes.
There is another and equally important thing. On the street where there is a school there should be Special adjustments on the road, for example crosswalks, roundabouts, deceleration lanes, signage and road signs are appropriate in order to keep the students safe and ensure that vehicles travel more slowly near the school. All we are saying is that in order to open the school after Passover, all these things have to be arranged, there are no shortcuts here."
According to Dihano, she is not looking for the school to be ready to the level of having curtains and pictures on the wall, but there are things that cannot be given up:
"We have a big problem with the fact that in May the students start taking the matriculation exams and there are matriculation exams in the laboratory as early as April. Nowadays it is impossible to know in which school building the matriculation exams will be held and this creates a mess and stresses the system for nothing. I am not even talking about the fact that if they continue The works during the month of May, the students will not be able to sit quietly and do the matriculation exams. It is very important to us, as it is important to all the parties concerned, that nothing will harm the children's matriculation exam grades, they have worked hard and deserve the best conditions in order to succeed.
Of course, the school Will open without a sports hall, which have not yet started to build. I think today there should also be a swimming pool in a school, but a sports hall in a school with over 1,000 students is a minimum.
We will not delay the transition for two years until a sports hall is built, but we will certainly not compromise on safety, bus routes and the possibility to study properly and do the graduations properly. We are sure that the municipality also has the same interest, to make sure that our children learn and succeed, even if the transition is not at the end of April but at the beginning of the school year in September."
As a reminder, the students of the Hugi school will move to the new building, and the old Hugi building will become the David Yelin Elementary School. Now the David Yelin school is located on Megido Street, but the land is intended for construction and belongs to the developer Gad Zeevi, and the students must be evacuated from David Yelin, before construction begins.