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In Kremenchuk, a portion of schoolchildren will not return to classes after the autumn holidays due to heating problems in educational facilities. Senior students will have one more week of online learning, while for younger students they may be allowed to return to schools as early as 3–5 November.
This is reported by the Kremenchuk Telegraph.
In Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, they decided to change the order of the return to schools after the autumn holidays. The reason is a shortage of heat generation capacity, which does not allow simultaneously heating all educational institutions and residential buildings.
The city authorities 29 announced in October, said by the mayor Vitaliy Maletsky at a meeting of the executive committee.
According to him, senior students will study remotely for another week after the holidays. A different procedure for returning for in-person lessons was provided for younger students.
Children from first to fourth grade will be allowed to attend schools gradually, as soon as the premises are provided with adequate temperatures.
“We will not send all children for a week to distance learning. The older classes will definitely go for a week,” Maletsky explained.
The mayor noted that primary school will be able to resume in-person learning as heating systems are launched. According to the plan, this could happen on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday of the coming week.
Thus, the tentative dates for returning students of 1–4 grades to classes are 3, 4, and 5 in November. However, a single start date for all primary grades has not been established.
The heating season in Kremenchuk is set to begin 1 November. Between 1–3 November, educational institutions should be ready to receive heat carrier.
Problems with simultaneous heating startup are due to the absence of the Krements’ heat and power plant. Because of this, the city lacks sufficient capacity to immediately supply heat to residential buildings, schools, and kindergartens.
Local authorities plan to supply heat gradually. For this, among other measures, new quarterly boiler houses will be used.
Heads of educational institutions should monitor the startup of heating systems and the temperature regime in the premises. From these indicators, the possibility of resuming in-person lessons for younger students will depend.
A specific date for returning children will be determined separately for each institution depending on the readiness of the heating system. Parents are advised to monitor notices from their schools, where information about resuming in-class learning will be provided.
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