Regarding the students who left the cities after the earthquake, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer said, “We saw that students who received their transfers after opening schools in 81 provinces, albeit modestly, were transferred to the region again. Currently, over 20 students have returned.” said.
In his statement at the education campus in the Adıyaman Beşpınar recreation area, Özer said that as the Ministry, they provided all kinds of support to the citizens to normalize life after major earthquakes, while on the other hand they made great efforts to normalize education. Explaining that they provided all kinds of support to bring children together with education and teachers in tents and containers when schools are closed, and to strengthen their psychological resilience, Özer pointed out that they reached approximately 1 million 200 thousand students and parents in this context.
Pointing out that they then gradually divided the provinces into three categories according to the severity of the earthquake, Özer said, “We started education in all centers and districts in Kilis, Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa on March 1, and in Osmaniye, Gaziantep and Adana on March 13. On March 27, we started education in some of the remaining four provinces of Adıyaman, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya and Hatay. We have given our governors the authority to open new districts for education when the conditions are ripe. As the Ministry of National Education, we have left the process to the coordination of our governors.” he said.
Emphasizing that the most critical student group among these processes and with the highest level of anxiety in the earthquake are the eighth grade students, that is, students who will take LGS and YKS, Özer said, “As of February 6, our Ministry of Interior, which has taken special care to prepare our children for exams, has provided AFAD. We opened LGS and YKS courses in tents and containers. We opened LGS and YKS courses in Mehmetçik Schools with our Ministry of National Defense. Again with our Ministry of Energy, we opened an onboard YKS course in Iskenderun. As long as we want those students to be able to prepare for those processes with as little stress as possible. We put all the resources, all the textbooks, all the supplementary books they needed at the service of those children.” used the phrases.
Stating that they visited the tents in Adıyaman that serve as the children's preparation for LGS and YKS, Özer said, “A really great organization was held. I would like to thank our Governor, the coordinating Minister of this place, the Minister of Transport, our esteemed deputy, and everyone who contributed. with students too sohbet we had the opportunity to. Our students are also very satisfied with the service. In fact, they demanded not to train for 5 days, but also to come on the weekend. Hopefully, starting from tomorrow, we will carry those children here at the weekend, and we will provide all kinds of support to prepare them for the exams by transporting them from the places where they are to tents as tents, containers as containers, houses as houses, free of charge.” made its assessment.
“Over 20 thousand of our students have returned”
Özer underlined that if they normalize education in the disaster-affected regions in this process, they see that life becomes normalized and said: “In the beginning, we opened transfers to 10 from 71 provinces. Our students' parents were taken to other provinces and transferred. The transfers had reached 250 thousand, but the education is now in 81 provinces. We have seen that the students who received their transfers after opening the schools, if necessary, are transferred to the region again, albeit modestly. Currently, over 20 students have returned. They are transferred to these provinces again and continue their education from here. Therefore, as the Ministry, I believe that we have managed this process very successfully with all our friends and minister friends in the field, with the motto of continuing education under all conditions and everywhere. Of course, the heroes of this process, our teachers… thank you very much to our teachers. Our teachers did not wait for the Ministry of National Education to assign them from the first day. Everyone went down to the field as they saw that there was a disaster situation there. Day and night, he worked with great devotion in education, psychological support, classification of materials, helping people and search and rescue efforts. We are proud of all our teachers, we are grateful to all our teachers. Hopefully, I believe that we will get through these processes quickly, by joining hands with the state and the people.”
Then with the earthquake survivor students sohbet Minister Özer listened to their problems and demands.