The progressive de-escalation of confinement in which Spain has lived during the last weeks does not include a return to classrooms, since schools and institutes will generally be closed until start of the next school year 2020/21, as the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, advanced yesterday. That is to say: until September there will be no class as we understood it only at the beginning of March.
Back to school will be with the new school year: September 7
Thus, it will not be until next September 7 when the Valencian students star in their return to school, since it is on that date that the next school year. Until then, educational centers will only open for very specific cases and always with limited capacity. They can be attended by children under 6 years of age whose parents prove that they have to do face-to-face work and do not have time flexibility, or students from courses that close the educational stage, as well as students who must take the PAU or Selectividad exam and the of Special Education centers.
According to the decree regulating de-escalation, published today in the Official State Gazette, the phases of lack of education in the Valencian Community will be (as long as there is no regrowth of infections and the periods initially established are maintained) as follows:
Phase 0 of the de-escalation – Until May 10
Educational centers will promote “online or distance education”, as has been done until now.
Phase 1 of the de-escalation – From May 11 to 25 (both inclusive)
The educational centers “will open for disinfection, conditioning and the administrative and preparatory work of teachers and auxiliary personnel.”
The universities will also open “for disinfection, conditioning and for administrative and research efforts.”
The “university laboratories” will also be opened.
Phase 2 of the de-escalation – From May 26 to June 9 (both inclusive)
This is when we will see the opening of classes for children up to 6 years old, although “only for families who prove that parents have to carry out face-to-face work without the possibility of flexibility.” This opening will be “always with limited capacity.”
Students in the last courses of each educational stage from ESO may also return to class, although always on a voluntary basis. Specifically, students from the “4th ESO, 2nd Baccalaureate, 2nd FP Middle and Higher Degree, and last year of Special Regime Teaching” may do so. In these cases, the classes will be held after the division of the groups of more than 15 students at 50% to facilitate alternate attendance or parallel semigroups.
Special Education centers may also open at this time and, as in the previous cases, student attendance “will be voluntary.”
In this same phase, the preparation of the exams of the PAU or Selectividad 2020 will take place in its first call, which this year It will be held in late June or early July in the Valencian Community.
The educational centers will prepare in this period, in a general way, “educational reinforcement programs to be developed in the center” for the students not mentioned above.
Phase 3 of the de-escalation – From June 10 to 24 (both inclusive)
It will be the time of end of the course and the delivery of notes in the Valencian Community, which this time will be supported mainly in the first two quarters. The end of the course will take place and the students will say goodbye until September 7, when classes will be resumed in person.
Back to school will no longer occur until the next school year. –
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