Associations of parents of students, teachers and unions urge the Ministry of Education to plan and specify as soon as possible the plan that they intend to implement in schools, starting next September, for the back to the classrooms in Galicia. The Confederation of AMPAS of public centers in Galicia considers that the budget increase and the teaching staff are essential measures to face the new course, marked by the coronavirus.
In the opinion of Nuria Martínez, CONFAPA Galicia technical secretary, if the municipalities make their facilities available to schools, they will need transportation and a dining room service adapted to those spaces “because that children eat in the classrooms we do not see it as an exit“Two premises to which he adds more hiring of teachers. Martínez urges the Department of Education” to think about what to do if the children have to return home “in the event of a new confinement.
For the directors of public schools in A Coruña the situation in Infant and Primary will be very complicated. They find it very difficult to set a ratio of 15 students per classroom, as proposed by the Administration, and they emphasize that many centers do not have enough spaces.
The President of the Association of City School Directors, Antonio Leonardo Pastor, has predicted that it will be very difficult to maintain safety distances between the little ones. “Let’s see how you explain to a Infant child that he cannot be near his soul friend,” he said on the A Coruña Opina program.
Private concerted centers also express concern about the uncertainty of how the school year will start, as of September 10. After health security, they demand the greatest possible presence in the classrooms.
“It would be ideal to have 10 students per classroom but we will not be able to do it because we would not have space throughout the city,” said the director of the Obradoiro School, Fina Pérez. In her opinion, the plan for the next academic year must “safeguard the health of the children, teachers and staff of the centers but it also has to be realistic”.
Some and others claim digital training for teachers, so that in the event of a new confinement the gap that prevented hundreds of students from telematically following their classes during the health crisis is not repeated. According to a study by CIG Ensino, the majority union among public education teachers, 25% of students found themselves in this situation.
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