{"id":514079,"date":"2026-02-01T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=514079"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:45:52","slug":"belarus-education-ministry-allows-children-to-skip-school-due-to-frosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-education-ministry-allows-children-to-skip-school-due-to-frosts","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Education Ministry Allows Children to Skip School Due to Frosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Taking into account weather conditions in a specific locality, parents have the right to decide not to send their children to an educational institution regardless of the temperature. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAccording to forecasts for February 2, air temperatures at night and in the morning in some parts of the country will reach \u201331 to \u201333 degrees Celsius. Decisions to suspend school classes may be taken by local executive committees if temperatures are recorded at \u201320 degrees Celsius or lower. In this regard, local education authorities inform parents in advance about the organization of classes and the transportation of pupils,\u201d<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Parents may independently decide whether their child should go to school, but they must notify the class teacher in advance.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTaking into account weather conditions in a specific locality, parents have the right to decide not to send their children to an educational institution regardless of the temperature. The Ministry of Education reminds that in this case, the place where children stay must ensure maximum safety conditions, and it is also necessary to notify the kindergarten teacher or class teacher in advance,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>If a child stays at home, no additional documents need to be submitted to the educational institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking into account weather conditions in a specific locality, parents have the right to decide not to send their children to an educational institution regardless of the temperature. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education of Belarus. \u201cAccording to forecasts for February 2, air temperatures at night and in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/697f8345a71f5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Education Ministry Allows Children to Skip School Due to Frosts"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}