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The co-president of the USR-PLUS Alliance, Dacian Ciolos, declared on Sunday, in Sibiu, that pupils should be able to go to school under safe health conditions, and the local and central authorities had time to prepare for the opening of the new school year.
Ciolos says that the politicization of the education system is a problem that should be solved.
"As we have been talking a lot about health since spring, and we have seen how the systemic, structural problems that we have not solved in health in recent years (...) have exploded in front of us, now, in a crisis situation. The same way now we see Romania's other big problem, education, the education system. We have politicized it to the teeth. (...) So, yes, I think that schools should be opened. Obviously there are risks, but that is why we have authorities: to reduce those risks", said Dacian Ciolos.
According to Ciolos, the authorities should be prepared for pupils to take online courses as well, but this would only be a backup solution.
"If we are to be prepared for what is to come, we should also be prepared for this backup situation, the online school, but where possible (...) we should also start the physical school," added Dacian Ciolos.
Ciolos was present in Sibiu on Sunday to support USR PLUS candidates for the local elections.
