Do Parents and Children Agree with the Gentle COVID-19 Tests in Bulgaria?

Children can return to school in person, but with mandatory testing twice a week, and teachers will either have to have a green certificate or be tested as well. These decisions were made last week. Thousands of questions followed about how this would happen and whether anyone's rights were being violated. What is clear at this stage and how the measures are taken checked Victoria Boyadzhieva.

We meet you with Milena Hristova and her daughter Elektra. Both are preparing for what lies ahead for all students between first and fourth grade. They prefer testing to online learning. However, some mothers of children in Electra's class write in general chats that they will never agree because they find it an experiment with their children that will traumatize them. Milena considers such statements to be contrary to common sense.

"If this is the price for our children to be healthy and to be present at school, I agree. I can't say that the child accepted this with enthusiasm, but it was not something that would extremely traumatize her", the mother shared.

It is not yet clear who will take the children's samples. Two options are being discussed - parents at home or teachers before the first lesson.

"There are 23 children in my daughter's class. I can't understand how everyone will be examined," Milena added.

At the 23rd Frederic Joliot-Curie High School in Sofia, the issue is being hotly debated among educators.

"Most likely, most of them will accept this obligation, which does not fit into all the positions and commitments of the teacher. It is not good to do the tests in class, the infection can spread ", commented Nina Tsoneva, director of the school.

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