Third Monday with crowd of empty benches in the schools and institutes of La Línea. The most parents from the city they have left their children at home again thus ignoring the request of the Junta de Andalucía to recover face-to-face classes in educational centers as soon as possible.
He fear of the spread of disease it remains among a good part of the educational community of Linense three weeks after the formal start of the second term. This Monday, January 25, the level of fouls still above 90%, according to the calculations of the Department of Education of the City of La Línea.
The municipal department, with data from 15 centers out of the total of 26 in the city, has encrypted the level of assistance at the start of this week in just 6 or 7%. Or what is the same, the absences continue to be the general trend reaching 92%, approximately.
“The incidence regarding the level of absences to class practically remains unchanged. This Monday attendance has increased a little, but very little. The number of students in some centers has risen slightly, while in others it remains as low as the previous week “, stressed Sebastián Hidalgo, Linense Councilor for Education.
On The Line, the incidence rate on Friday, January 22, was 2,460.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the second highest in the entire Campo de Gibraltar, which keeps thousands of students at home for fear of contagion when eleven school days have already passed after Christmas. The school population in the city (between schools and institutes) exceeds 12,500 people.
The educational inspection he demanded last week to put an end to this situation. The Junta de Andalucía, through the Ministry of Education, urged that the classes take place in person “Without being flexible or in the modality online”As of this Monday, considering that the fear of contagion did not justify the default. The vast majority of families has turned a deaf ear to the demand of the educational administration.
Pending a change in the guidelines, the educational inspection recalls that both the teaching activity and the exams must be face-to-face and that “this modality must be fulfilled while there is no new instruction” since in the opinion of the health and educational authorities the centers “They are safe places with established protocols to avoid contagion.” The Board then advised that it would begin count absences as absenteeism.
The parents of the city have organized to, in addition to not taking their children to class in the majority, systematically justify all absences. La Flampa is willing to endure with this pattern to force the Board to review its decision, while for absences (justified or not) to lead to absenteeism there is a protocol subject to an evaluation and a series of procedures that are not immediate.
The school council, meeting again last Friday, analyzed the situation although it has not formally reiterated the request for suspension of the face-to-face activity. “Dont have much sense claim again what has already been requested and they have not answered us “, has recognized Sebastián Hidalgo.
The mayor of Linense, Juan Franco, stated after that meeting that the situation was and continues to be “extremely serious.” “We have no guarantees that there can be no contagions from students if they enter the classrooms, “he said, while evidencing that it would not be easy to declare the parents’ decision as absenteeism:” I would like to remind that the City Council has two people working in this issue and should be processed in the order of about 11,800 files, “Franco said then.
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