Mill Hill College in Goirle will be forced to switch back to online classes from Tuesday. In total, 33 of the 120 teachers are at home sick or in quarantine. This also applies to more than two hundred of the total of fifteen hundred students. Rector Ard van Aken: “Some students don’t have a timetable left.” Another school in Oisterwijk is closed.
The headmaster of Mill Hill College indicates that he did not expect the number of infections at his school to rise so quickly. This is a week after schools reopened after an extended Christmas break. “We have not taken this into account,” he says.
He calls this ‘the least bad moment’. “Next week is a test week. We are now preparing for it online.”
And he thinks that’s okay with students. The students will return to school next week for the tests. And then the rector hopes that teaching at his school can be resumed. “But we are dealing with daily rates,” he emphasizes. “So it remains to be seen how it goes.”
2 college Durendael also closed
Inquiries at other schools show that Mill Hill College in Goirle is not the only school struggling with an increasing number of infections. The 2college Durendael in Oisterwijk also announces that online lessons will be given for the rest of the week. This mainly concerns an increasing number of infections among students.
Overarching school board Our Secondary Education (OMO) informs us that no entire schools from the OMO group have been closed yet. However, there are classes in several places that have to follow home education because of corona infections.
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