More careful parents have not been sending their children to school during the coronavirus pandemic. However, schools are not obliged to ensure distance learning for individual students.
Distance learning will continue until January 25 in Harju and Ida-Viru Counties, th worst-affected regions. In the rest of Estonia, children with some exceptions are welcomed at school.
Deputy Secretary General (Secondary and Adult Education) Robert Lippin said that he understands the worries of the parents who would keep their children at home, but emphasized that if possible, children should still participate in contact learning.
"If the parent makes a decision to not send his or her child to school, whatever the reason, fear of the virus, a domestic situation, then the parent doesn't have the right to demand a parallel system from the school to teach children studying both at home and at school," Lippin said.