Niels Strolenberg, chairman of the Promes educational foundation in Meppel, which includes several primary schools, made a tour this week of colleagues from other foundations in education. “Structurally sending children home does not happen in our province,” he says. But it often happens that a class is without a teacher due to illness of a teacher. Children can sometimes be spread across other classes. “But that is not always possible. Unfortunately, we still choose to send the students home for a day.”
This is similar in secondary education. “Things are still going reasonably well around the summer holidays. What we do have problems with are interim replacements, for example if someone becomes pregnant or is ill for a long time,” responds Peter de Visser, director of Stad & Esch and Dingstede secondary schools in Meppel. . “Then it becomes increasingly difficult to fill places.”