Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
School corridor.
School corridor. - Credit: vlue / DepositPhotos - License: DepositPhotos
Health
education
primary education
secondary education
quarantine
Covid-19
Coronavirus
AVS
absenteeism
teacher shortage
Monday, 7 February 2022 - 12:10
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Quarter of Dutch teachers home with Covid; No substitutes to be found

More and more schools in the Netherlands send classes home because teachers are home sick with Covid-19 or have to quarantine, and no substitute can be found. 23 percent of teachers in primary and secondary education are currently at home, the general association of school leaders AVS told NU.nl on Monday.

The AVS polled about 1,000 school directors. 90 percent said they couldn't find a substitute teacher. 60 percent of schools have sent one or more classes home in the past weeks.

"At the moment, the focus of many schools is to maintain education," AVS chairman Ingrid Doornbos said to NU.nl. "As a result, schools hardly get around to catching up on learning delays."

Absenteeism is even higher among pupils at 26 percent, even after the Cabinet relaxed quarantine rules for school children. Schools used to send a class home to quarantine after three or more infections. That rule has been scrapped. Pupils only have to quarantine when they test positive or have symptoms.

About 80 percent of schools manage to organize distance learning for absent pupils. But that is also getting harder and harder due to the teacher shortage.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Food prices continue to rise despite drop in manufacturing prices
  • Hoekstra one step closer to becoming European Commissioner for Climate
  • Inflation brings Dutch meat consumption to “historic” low
  • Prince Bernhard's membership card for Hitler's party found in his own archives
  • Train traffic to and from Schiphol back on schedule after Tuesday outage
  • Parliament pushes to to ban breeding, owning bite-dangerous dogs

Top stories

  • Prince Bernhard's membership card for Hitler's party found in his own archives
  • Parliament pushes to to ban breeding, owning bite-dangerous dogs
  • Air France-KLM buys 19.9% shares in struggling competitor SAS
  • One killed, two missing after boat capsizes in Noord-Brabant
  • Teen parents convicted of leaving baby to die in underground Amsterdam dumpster
  • Amsterdam restaurant crowned best restaurant in the world by Tripadvisor

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content